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MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 ABBOTT, Henry, bom in Keene, October 5, 
 1832, was for man)' years a leading citizen of Win- 
 chester and died in tliat place February 12, 189S. 
 He was the son of Daniel and Polly (Ijrown) Ab- 
 bott, and was of the eighth generation from George 
 Abbott of Andover, Massachusetts. He attended 
 the common schools of Surry, the Academy at Mar- 
 low, and Mt. Caasar Academy at Swanzey. At the 
 age of eighteen he went South as the agent of a 
 New York publishing house. For a year he taught 
 in Warsaw, Pennsylvania, and for two years more 
 was employed by a large lumber company at I^idge- 
 way in that state. Returning to Keene, he engaged 
 in business as a clerk and later as a member of the 
 firm of Nims, Gates & Abbott. Selling out his in- 
 terest, he spent a year in travel, returning to Keene 
 and again entering business. In 1863, he went to 
 Washington, becoming a clerk of the United States 
 Sanitary Commission. He was sent as sanitary 
 agent, in the spring of r864, with the Burnside 
 Corps in General Grant's campaign from the Rapi- 
 dan to Petersburg, and was present at the battles of 
 the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, North Anna, and Cold 
 Harbor. Illness compelled him to return home. It 
 was his intention to return to the front, but while he 
 was convalescing, he was elected Cashier of the 
 Winchester State Bank, which in , March, 1865, was 
 changed to a National Bank, Mr. Abbott remaining 
 its Cashier until his death. From r865 he held the 
 office of Town Treasurer. P'or eleven years in suc- 
 cession he was Moderator. A zealous Republican, 
 he served as Chairman of the Executive Committee, 
 was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 
 r89o, and attended many county and state conven- 
 tions. In 1869 and 1870 he represented Winches- 
 ter in the Legislature. During his irrst term he was 
 chairman of a special committee to examine state 
 prisons, and was a prominent member of the Com- 
 mittee on Railroads. In his second year he was 
 Chairman of the first Insurance Committee formed 
 in the House. When he was a member of the State 
 
 Senate in 1873 '^^^'^^ 1S74, he served on the Commit- 
 tee on Banking and Finance and on the Judiciary. 
 He was a tireless worker, and aided largely in se- 
 curing the passage of a number of important meas- 
 ures, among them several dealing with banking and 
 insurance. As an orator, Mr. Abbott took a leading 
 place in the state, both in .stump speaking and in the 
 delivery of more formal addresses. When, in r894, 
 
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 HENRY ABBOTT. 
 
 the descendants of Captain Thomas Harvey, an 
 officer in the Revolutionary Army, dedicated a mon- 
 ument in Surry to his memory, Mr. Abbott, himself 
 one of the descendants, delivered the address, pay- 
 ing elocjuent tribute to the soldier and pioneer. He 
 was always foremost in promoting the welfare of his 
 town, and the Winchester Library, built at a cost of 
 fifteen thousand dollars, was erected largely through 
 his efforts. He was a Mason, a member of Philesian 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 Lodge of Winchester, Cheshire Chapter, and Hugh 
 I)e Payen Commandery, Knights Templar, at 
 Keene ; one of the founders of the New Hampshire 
 Pusiness Men's Club ; and a member of the New 
 Hampshire Pankers' Association. Mr. Abbott was 
 married January 22, 1855, to Harriett M. Crain, 
 daughter of Leander and Hannah Crain of Surry. 
 His wife died August 12, 18S8. They had two 
 children; Lelia E., now Mrs. Arthur J. Parber of 
 Oshkosh, \^'isconsin, and Kate M., now Mrs. N. C. 
 Wardwell of Hartford, Conn. 
 
 APPOTT, Oscar Dunreath, Physician, Man- 
 chester, was born in Cornisli Flat, September 13, 
 1824, son of Ezekiel and Phebe (Morse) Abbott. 
 
 OSCAR I). AUKcrrr. 
 
 He is in the seventh generation, in cHrect line from 
 George Abbott who emigrated from Yorkshire, Eng- 
 land, about 1640, and settled in Andover, Massa- 
 chusetts, in 1643. His great-grandfather, Nathan 
 Abbott, was born in Ando\'er and mo\ed to Wilton, 
 New Hampshire, where his grandfather was born. 
 Dr. Abbott received his education in the district 
 school at Pradford, New Hampshire, at Henniker 
 Academy, and at l-'hillips Exeter Academy. After 
 lea\ing Exeter he went to Manchester in J847 and 
 began the study of medicine in the office of Doctors 
 Davis and Jones. He took the degree of M. D. 
 from the Perkshire Medical College of Pittsfield, 
 
 Massachusetts, November 20, 1850. The following 
 winter and spring he spent in Boston, attending lec- 
 tures and doing hospital work. In the spring of 
 1853 he settled in Rockport, Massachusetts, and re- 
 mained there sixteen years, when, on account of ill 
 health, he removed to Manchester, where he is still 
 in active practice. He was City and ('ounty Physi- 
 cian in the years iS78-'79, and a member of the 
 Manchester Board of Health in 1870. He is a 
 Knights Templar, and a member of the Knights of 
 Pythias. He is a member of the New Hampsliire 
 Medical Society, of the Manchester Medical Asso- 
 ciation, of which he was chosen President at its 
 organization, and has been a member of the Massa- 
 chusetts State Medical Society since 1850. He is 
 Consulting Physician to the Elliot Hospital and a 
 member of the Derryfield Club. In September, 
 1853, Dr. Abbott married Margaret S., daughter of 
 Edward H. Pearce of Gloucester, Massachusetts, and 
 in September, 1S65, Emma B., a sister of his first 
 wife. June 10, 1879, he was married to Kate Tarr, 
 daughter of Penjamin Tarr of Rockport, Massachu- 
 setts. He has three daughters : Mary C, Maud P., 
 and Annie F. Abbott. 
 
 AMIDON, Charles Jacob, Woolen Manufac- 
 turer, Hinsdale, was born in Chesterfield, New 
 Hampshire, April 23, 1827, son of Otis and Nancy 
 (Cook) Amidon. He traces his descent from Roger 
 Amidon, a Huguenot, who escaping from siege of 
 Rochelle, France, went to England, and subsequently 
 coming to America, settled in Salem, Massachusetts, 
 in 1636, and who was one of the original proprie- 
 tors of Rehoboth, Massachusetts. Roger Amidon 's 
 great-grandson Jacob, a Harvard student when the 
 Revolution broke out, joined the army in time to 
 fight at Punker Hill, was captured by the liritish 
 and afterwards confined on a prison ship in New 
 York harbor. He settled in Chesterfield in 1782, 
 and died there in 1839, ^ff^d eighty-six years. His 
 son, Otis Amidon, farmer and merchant, was a man 
 of prominence of the town, which he repeatedly 
 represented in the Legislature, and by which he was 
 honored with many local offices. The subject of 
 this sketch received his education in the common 
 schools of Chesterfield, at a time when the schools 
 of Cheshire county were considered the best in the 
 state, and he also attended Chesterfield Academy 
 for many terms. In his early manhood he was a 
 successful teacher, but in 1849 h^ formed a partner- 
 ship with the late Henry O. Coolidge, the firm going 
 into business at Chesterfield Center. In 185 i Mr. 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 Amidon removed to Hinsdale, where he engaged in 
 mercantile pursuits for ten years. In company with 
 Dr. Frederic Boyden and Sylvester Bishop, he be- 
 gan the manufacture of woolen goods in the spring 
 of 1862, the firm being Bishop, Boyden & Amidon. 
 Although death claimed both the senior partners, 
 Mr. Amidon has carried on the business until the 
 present time, his two sons, P. F". and W. O. Amidon, 
 being now associated with him under the firm name 
 of C. J. Amidon & Sons. They operate mills at 
 Wilton as well as those in Hinsdale. Mr. Amidon 
 has had charge of the settlement of many estates, 
 and is frequently called upon for expert advice in 
 intricate cases where estates or personal property 
 are involved. He is a Director in several banks, 
 and has served as President of the Hinsdale Sav- 
 ings Bank, a post he resigned over two years ago. 
 He has held a number of public offices of honor 
 and trust, and has declined many more. He was 
 Postmaster of Chesterfield in i849-'5o; Postmaster 
 of Hinsdale from 1861 to 1872 ; State Bank Com- 
 missioner, iS55-'57; Representative in the State 
 Legislature in i86i-'64, i876-'77, and 1S83; State 
 Senator in 1878, 1879, ^^'^^ 1880; and he has held 
 various town offices, such as Moderator and Select- 
 man. In i88g he was appointed one of a committee 
 of five to draft plans and make estimates and sug- 
 gestions for the new State Library at Concord. This 
 edifice was dedicated in 1895, the plans of the com- 
 mittee, in formulating which Mr. Amidon took a 
 part, being accepted by the Legislature without al- 
 teration. In politics he was originally a Whig, but 
 early joined the Republican party, soon becoming- 
 influential not only in local but also in state affairs. 
 It was he who first presented the name of the late 
 William Haile as a candidate for Governor of the 
 state, and it was largely through his efforts that Mr. 
 Haile was elected. Mr. Amidon also had no small 
 share in bringing forward the name of the late 
 United States Senator J. W. Patterson, then a Dart- 
 mouth professor, as a candidate for Congress, and 
 in securing his election. Since the death of his 
 oldest daughter, Mary Elizabeth, wife of Dr. R. B. 
 Whitredge, he has in great measure withdrawn him- 
 self from public life, and has striven in business 
 pursuits to escape from the shadow of a great sor- 
 row. Mr. Amidon is a charter member of Golden 
 Rule Lodge No. 77, F'ree and Accepted Masons. 
 He has given substantial aid and encouragement to 
 many projects for benefiting his town ; has given 
 largely to charities ; has aided in building up the 
 town schools and library. To him is due much of 
 
 the credit for the erection of one of the finest town 
 halls in the state. In his religious views he is a 
 liberal. Mr. Amidon was married May 11, 185 1, to 
 Mary J. Harvey of Chesterfield. They have had four 
 children : Philip Frank, Mary E^lizabeth, Esther 
 Maria, and William Otis Amidon, of whom the sons 
 survive. As an estimate of Mr. Amidon's public 
 service, the following extract is given from a letter 
 of the Hon. Ezra S. Stearns, Secretary of State : 
 "v\mong his associates in state service Mr. Amidon 
 has been cjuickly recognized as an able, clear-headed 
 man. His services have been valuable. Good 
 judgment directed by an lionest purpose has given 
 him power that commanded universal esteem and 
 respect. In every public position he has filled he 
 
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 C. J. AMIDON. 
 
 has been foremost in influence, and his good com- 
 mon sense has attracted attention. Among Iris 
 friends he is loved as a thoroughly honest, upright 
 man, and he is a firm friend to those he deems 
 worthy of such regard, but he will not tolerate any- 
 thing that approaches treachery or double-dealing. 
 He is faithful, sincere, truthful, honest, and has a 
 clear head and a vigorous intellect. He might have 
 held many more positions of public trust, but he 
 never sought honor, — all he has enjoyed were freely 
 tendered, and many possible honors have been 
 declined. He is an example of the self-made man 
 of New Hampshire." 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 ANTHOINE, Isaiah Gilman, Physician and 
 Surgeon, Nashua, was born in Windham, Maine, 
 March 25, 1S46, son of John and Mary A. (Gil- 
 man) Anthoine. He received liis early educa- 
 tion in the High School at Windham Centre and 
 Kent's Hill and North liridgton Academies, and 
 prepared for college at \\'estbrook Seminary, gradu- 
 ating from the seminar)- in 1S6S. He was a mem- 
 ber of the class of 1872 in Dartmouth College up 
 to his Junior year. In 1866 he had begun the 
 study of medicine with Dr. Sturges of Windham, 
 Maine, and later he studied with Dr. Jenness of 
 Saccarappa and Doctors S. H. Weeks and William 
 Warren Greene of Portland, Maine. He attended 
 
 I. G. ANTHOINE. 
 
 two courses of lectures at the Portland School for 
 Medical Instruction, and then entered Bowdoin 
 Medical College, from which he graduated in 1874, 
 In 1 89 1 he took a post-graduate course at the 
 Boston Polyclinic. From July, 1874, to November, 
 1892, he practised medicine in Antrim, New Hamp- 
 shire, and then removed to Nashua. He is a mem- 
 ber of the New Hampshire Medical Society, Centre 
 District Medical Society, of which he is an Ex- 
 President, Nashua Medical Society, and American 
 Medical Association. In 1884 he was a delegate 
 to Dartmouth Medical College. From 1878 to 1884 
 he was Superintendent of Schools at Antrim. He 
 is a member of the Nasliua Board of Education. He 
 
 is an Odd Fellow and a Mason. In politics he is a 
 Republican. Dr. Anthoine was married on January 
 2, 1877, to Katie I. Preston, of Antrim. They 
 have two children: Harry M., born October 2, 
 1879, and Mary E. Anthoine, born August 11, 
 1885. 
 
 BACHELDER, John, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 
 whose inventions made possible the modern sewing 
 machine, was born in Weare, New Hampshire, 
 March 7, 181 7, son of William and Mary (Bailey) 
 Bachelder. He had a public school and academic 
 education, and for three years was a teacher, after 
 which he became an accountant in Boston, in con- 
 nection with the transportation company doing 
 business on the Middlesex Canal. Subsequently 
 he formed a partnership in the transportation trade, 
 but the completion of the railway to Manchester 
 put an end to the enterprise. Mr. Bachelder then 
 turned to the dry goods business and the manufac- 
 ture of silk and worsted trimmings. In the winter 
 of 1846 he went to Europe to purchase goods and 
 arrange for an importing house in Boston, steps 
 which led to the formation of the prosperous firm 
 of Bachelder, Burr & Company. A few months 
 later, in 1847, Elias Howe had a sewing machine 
 on exhibition in Boston, a curious piece of mech- 
 anism but of little value from a practical stand- 
 point. Mr. Bachelder became deeply interested in 
 the machine, and after much study came to the 
 belief that it could be vastly improved. After much 
 experimenting privately at his home, he took a 
 shop, mastered the trade of machinist, and de- 
 veloped his works until he had a dozen men em- 
 ployed. That he might devote himself wholly to 
 his undertaking he gave up his profitable importing 
 business, and devoted five years and all his means 
 (about twelve thousand dollars) to his task. To 
 meet expenses he was forced to borrow about four 
 thousand dollars from his friends ; and when finally 
 he found it necessary to sell his patents, he realized 
 only enough to pay his debts. Howe, Singer, 
 Baker, and others who subsecjuently became famous 
 in connection with sewing machines, frequently 
 visited his shop and saw his maclrines at work. 
 W. E. Baker of the Grover & Baker Company, 
 saw one of Mr. Bachelder's experimental machines, 
 using one vertical and one horizontal needle, and 
 the company subsequently built a machine which 
 was practically the same, with the exception that a 
 curved under needle was substituted for a straight 
 horizontal one. A clumsy stitch had been pro- 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 duced by the Bachelder machine of this type, 
 which used two threads of equal size, and the 
 inventor had not patented the device, but in other 
 liancls it was found that a smaller under thread 
 obviated the trouble, and success was achieved. 
 The most important feature of the Bachelder 
 patent, however, the horizontal supporting table, 
 the continuous feed, and the vertical straight needle 
 are there, which no sewing machine in use to-day 
 could do without. His model deposited at the 
 Patent Office showed clearly enough what he had 
 invented, but the patent failed to protect him fully. 
 After his indirect sale to the Singer Company, it 
 was reissued and made to cover all the points of 
 the invention. There was subsecjuent litigation by 
 the famous sewing machine combination, Singer, 
 Wheeler & Wilson, and Grover & pjaker, with 
 Howe, but eventually a settlement was effected. 
 Many calculations have been made of the value of 
 the Bachelder patent, fn the last year of its exist- 
 ence one company reported sales of two hundred and 
 sixty thousand machines, and on the clay it expired 
 the price of machines was reduced from sixty to 
 thirty dollars. In other words, the protection in 
 one year reached the sum of seven million eight 
 hundred thousand dollars. Indeed, experts have 
 figured the total value of the patent at over one 
 hundred million dollars. "Bachelder,'' says a work 
 on American inventors, " was the first man in the 
 world who ever built a sewing machine having a 
 horizontal bed-piece or table on which the cloth 
 was supported, a perpendicular, eye-pointed needle, 
 a needle-plate, a continuous feed, and a device for 
 pressing the cloth in the vicinity of the needle with 
 a yielding pressure, five elements which are now 
 found in every modern sewing machine, and with- 
 out which they would be substantially worthless." 
 It may be remarked that when Mr. Bachelder tried 
 to introduce his machine, he encountered the sub- 
 stantial opposition of the journeymen tailors of 
 Boston, and for a time they prolonged the day of 
 hand sewing. After his experience as an inventor 
 he engaged in cotton manufacturing at Lisbon, 
 Connecticut, where he encountered the disasters of 
 fire and business depression. A venture in woolen 
 manufacturing also failed to be remunerative. He 
 served as Postmaster and Town Treasurer of 
 Lisbon, was a Director of the First National Bank 
 of Norwich, and a Trustee of the Chelsea Savings 
 Bank. In 1875 he removed to Napa, California, 
 establishing a manufacturing plant, in which he lost 
 heavily. Soon after he retired from active business 
 
 life. He has always been interested in literary 
 matters, and has published a book, "A. 1). 2050," 
 suggested by Bellamy's " Looking Backward."' He 
 was Secretary of the Franklin Association, Boston, 
 in 1841 and 1842, and Secretary of the West Cam- 
 bridge Lyceum in 185 1 and President in 1852. 
 ^^'hile in California he became interested in libra- 
 ries, and was for some years a Trustee of the Napa 
 Library, of which he was President when he left 
 California. Subsequently he has resided in Mil- 
 waukee. He has taken an interest in politics, and 
 while a resident of Connecticut was President of the 
 First Fremont Club in his district, in " The Path- 
 finder's ' presidential campaign. Mr. Bachelder 
 
 JOHN BACHUMIER. 
 
 married September 5, 1843, Adaline Wason, who 
 died November 28, 1893, but a few months after 
 the celebration of their golden wedding. They 
 had three children : Emma Louise (Johnsonj, Her- 
 man Lindner, who died March 21, iSgi, and 
 Charles Sumner Bachelder, now in charge of the 
 chemical department of the Western Beet Sugar 
 Company of California. 
 
 BAILEY, William Wallack, a leading Lawyer 
 and Business Man of Nashua, was born in Hopkin- 
 ton. New Hampshire, November 11, 1829, son of 
 Thomas and Jemima (Smith) Bailey. He gradu- 
 ated from Dartmouth College in 1854. He began 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 his legal studies with (leorge i\: Foster of Concord, 
 later attending the Alban)' Law School, from which 
 he was graduated in 1856. His first practice was 
 in Nashua, and there he has since remained. F'rom 
 the beginning of his professional career, he has 
 enjoyed an enviable reputation. In i863-'64, he 
 was a Representative in the State Legislature, and 
 was a candidate for State Senator. He was a can- 
 didate for Elector at Large in 1884, and for Congress 
 in 1886. He was City Solicitor of Nashua in 1884. 
 In business and social life, he has had many and 
 varied interests. From 187 1 to 1874, he was 
 President of the \^'ilton Railroad. Since 1871, he 
 has been a Director of the Nashua i.\: Lowell road, 
 and its Treasurer since 1891. He has been Presi- 
 dent of the Nashua Savings Bank for fifteen years, 
 a Director of the Indian Head National Bank since 
 1894, and President of the Hillsboro Mills Manu- 
 facturing Company. For four 3'ears from 1 871, he 
 was a Trustee of the New Hampshire Agricultural 
 College. For over a score of years he has been 
 a Trustee of the Nashua City Library, and he is also 
 a Trustee of the State library. In 1895 and 1896, 
 
 w. w. l;All.E^^ 
 
 he was President of the New Hampshire .Society of 
 the Sons of the American Revolution. In politics 
 ]\Ir. Bailey is a Democrat. ( )n September 21, 1858, 
 he married Mary lloardman, daughter of Alfred 
 Greeley of Nashua. Their children are : Marion 
 
 Greeley, born Augu.st 19, 1859, died July 12, 1867; 
 Caroline Webster, born March 30, 1862, died 
 August 12, 1891 ; William Thomas, born November 
 19, i86g, graduated from Dartmouth College in 
 1 89 1, and subsequently a student in Harvard Medi- 
 cal School ; and Helen Greeley Bailey, born March 
 9, 1873. Mr. Bailey has done faithful and good 
 work in his profession, and as a public man, 
 has enjoyed the respect and esteem of his fellow 
 citizens. 
 
 BARTON, Hubbard Ai.onzo, Senior Editor of 
 the New Hampshire Argus and Spectator, Newport, 
 was born in Croydon, New Hampshire, May 12, 
 1842, son of Caleb L. and Bethiah (Tuck) Barton. 
 His family is of English stock, its founders in this 
 country having come here prior to 1636. Of their 
 decendants, many have been prominent in the profes- 
 sions and other walks of life. The great-great-grand- 
 father of the subject of this sketch was a near rela- 
 tive of General Barton of Revolutionary fame, and 
 was killed at Bunker Hill. The great-grandfather, 
 Benjamin Barton, Jr., with two of his brothers, 
 entered the army and fought at Bunker Hill, 
 Bennington, West Point, and New York city. He 
 married Mahitable Frye in 1779, removed to Croy- 
 den in 1784, and there was honored with nearly all 
 the offices in the gift of his town. For seventeen 
 years he was a Selectman and for fifteen Chairman 
 of the Board. His son John was a successful farm- 
 er, as was his grandson Caleb, who was born Feb- 
 ruary 5, 1S15, and who is now retired from active 
 life. Hubbard A. Barton received his education in 
 the common schools of his native town, and under 
 the tuition of John Cooper, a noted instructor. In 
 his youth he developed a strong taste for journalism 
 and wrote frequently for the press. In April, 1879, 
 in company with W. W. Prescott, he purchased 
 the Argus and Spectator, a Democratic newspaper 
 established at Newport in 1S23, by his great uncle, 
 Cyrus Barton, a journalist of high repute. Since 
 the fall of 1880, the firm of Barton & Wheeler have 
 published the paper, which, under Mr. Barton's 
 editorial charge, has developed greatly, enlarged 
 its forms, acquired new machinery, and widened its 
 circulation. Aside from his labors in his own 
 office, he is correspondent of the New York Herald 
 for Sullivan county. He was the successful Super- 
 intendent of the Schools of Croyden from 1872 to 
 1879. He is a member of Mount Vernon Lodge, 
 No. 15, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of 
 Tabernacle Chapter, No. 19, Royal Arch Masons, 
 
MEN OF PRDGRKSS. 
 
 serving as High Priest for two years ; Sullivan Com- 
 mandery Knights 'I'emplar ; Newport Lodge, No. 
 42, Knights of Pj'thias ; Granite State Club, and New 
 England Suburban Press Association. He is a Trus- 
 
 tee of the Richards Free Library. Li politics he is- 
 a Jeffersonian Democrat, firmly believing in a strict 
 construction of, and adherence to, the nation's con 
 stitution as the only safeguard of personal freedom 
 and popular rule. As a political writer, he lias 
 been dignified and conservative. Mr. Parton was 
 married April 27, 1882, to Ella L. Wilmarth, daugh- 
 ter of the late Jonathan M. Wilmarth of Newport. 
 They have one child : Henry Wilmarth liarton 
 born September 16, 1890. 
 
 J)LOOD, Aretas, whose death November 24, 
 1897, deprived Manchester of one of her largest 
 manufacturers and best of influential citizens, was 
 born in \^'eathersfield, \'ermont, October 8, 1816, 
 son of Nathaniel and Roxellana (Proctor) Plood. 
 He came of sturdy New England stock, being de- 
 scended from James Blood who came to this coun- 
 try from England and settled in Concord, Massa- 
 chusetts, in 1639. The family was prominent in 
 the early history of Groton and Pepperell, Massa- 
 chusetts, and in the days of the Revolution gave its 
 quota of soldiers to the Patriots' Army ; Sewall 
 Blood, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, 
 
 being one of those who served in this war. His 
 son, Nathaniel, died in Waltham, IMassachusctts, in 
 1876, having reached the advanced age of eighty- 
 seven years. Aretas P>lood spent his boyhood upon 
 his father's farm, taking advantage of the schools of 
 the town, and bearing his full share of the toil of 
 the farm. At the age of seventeen he was appren- 
 ticed to a blacksmith, and worked at the forge for 
 two years and a half, and then turned to something 
 a little broader which gave him more opportunity 
 for the exercise of liis mechanical and inventive 
 bent. In 1840 he went to Evans\'ille, Indiana, 
 where for a year he followed his trade of machinist. 
 Upon his return to the East he was employed suc- 
 cessfully in North Chelmsford, Lowell, and Law- 
 rence, Massachusetts, where in the latter place he 
 was given charge of the manufacture of the tools, 
 implements, and machinery for a large machine shop 
 then in the course of erection. His ability and in- 
 dustry won him promotion, and soon he assumed 
 the management of the establishment. Mr. Plood 
 removed to Manchester in September, 1853, where, 
 associated with ( )liver W. Ijailey, he established the 
 Vulcan works, under the firm name of Bailey, Plood 
 ■X; Company, the business being the manufacture of 
 locomotives. In the spring of 1854 new buildings 
 were erected, and in the same year the company 
 was incorporated as the Manchester Locomotive 
 Works, with Oliver W. Bailey as its first agent. He 
 was succeeded by Mr. Blood in the active manage- 
 ment three years later. The company's operations 
 grew steadily, hundreds of locomotives being built, 
 and in 1872, Mr. Blood bought the fire engine busi- 
 ness of the Amoskeag Company, together with the 
 patents and good will. The machine was remodeled 
 and is now the old engine only in name. At the 
 works are now constructed between fifty and one 
 hundred fire engines a year, besides other fire appa- 
 ratus, hose carriages, etc. Mr. Blood built the first 
 horseless engine used in this country. The loco- 
 motive department of the works has a capacit)- of 
 being characterized by great executive ability, in- 
 domitable industry, foresight, good judgment, and 
 sound common sense. Mr. Blood was also Presi- 
 dent and Treasurer of the Nashua Iron and Steel 
 Company ; President of the Ames Manufacturing 
 Company, of Chicopee, Massachusetts ; Treasurer 
 of the (ilobe Nail Company of iJoston, Massachu- 
 setts ; President of the Amoskeag Paper Company 
 of Manchester ; Owner and Treasurer of the Man- 
 chester Hardware Company of Manchester; Treas- 
 urer and Principal ( )wner of the Manchester Sash 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 and Blind Factoiy, Manchester ; President and 
 Owner of tlie B. H. Piper Compan)', Manchester, 
 whicli manufactures axe handles, spokes, base-ball 
 bats, and the like ; Director of the Merrimack River 
 
 ARETAS BLOOD. 
 
 Bank from i860 to 1868 ; Director of the Manches- 
 ter National Bank from 1874 to 1877, and from 
 that time until his death President of the Second 
 National Bank; Director of the Waketield Rattan 
 Company of Boston, Massachusetts ; the largest 
 stockholder and the President of the Columbia Cot- 
 ton Mills of Columbia, South Carolina ; also con- 
 nected with the Water Power Company of the same 
 place ; Vice-President and Director of the Burgess 
 Sulphite Fibre Compan}' of Berlin, New Hamp- 
 shire ; owner of a large peg mill in Lisbon ; 
 the largest New Hampshire Stockholder of the 
 Manchester Mills, and was elected President of the 
 same succeeding Dexter Richards, receiving a re- 
 election ; and Director of the Boston & Maine iiail- 
 road for several years. How Mr. Ijlood retained 
 his active control of these interests, which only in- 
 creased with his years, nobody knows. Age brought 
 him no rest, for his indomitable determination and 
 will would not let him retire. The methods of the 
 modern business man he never used. He knew no 
 private secretary, no stenographer awaited his call, 
 no t3-pewriter clicked off his business letters. Much 
 of his success he attributed to the early training he 
 
 received from his mother. In politics Mr. Blood 
 was a staunch Republican. His first vote was cast 
 for William Henry Harrison. While he was never 
 very active in politics his endorsement always car- 
 ried weiffht and he served in a number of offices. 
 He was twice Alderman, and was a Garfield Elec- 
 tor. Although unostentatious in his charities he 
 gave liberally to all worthy objects that met his ap- 
 proval. An instance of his generosity was the gift 
 to the Woman's Aid of Relief Society of Manches- 
 ter of twenty-five thousand dollars, which made it 
 possible for the society to acquire the building now 
 used as its home. Mr. Blood married September 
 4, 1S45, Lavina Kendall. He had two daughters : 
 Nora, wife of F'rank P. Carpenter, and Emma, wife 
 of Dr. L. Melville French of Manchester. 
 
 BROWN, Elisha Rhode.s, Banker, Dover, was 
 born in Pawtuxet, Rhode Island, March 28, 1847, 
 son of Colville Dana and Mary Eliza (Rhodes) 
 Brown. He is the seventh in descent from Chad 
 Brown of Providence, and ninth in descent from 
 Roger Williams of Providence on his mother's side. 
 
 E. R. liROWN. 
 
 He entered the Strafford National Bank, December 
 10, 1867, and was elected Cashier, January i, 1876, 
 Vice-President, June 30, 1890, and President in 
 January, 1897. On March 25, 1876, he was elected 
 Corporator of Strafford Savings Bank, Trustee, 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 March 31, 1883, Vice-President, March 24, 1890, 
 and President, October 12,1891. He is a Direc- 
 tor in the Manchester & Lawrence Raih'oad, the 
 Dover & Winnepisseogee Railroad, West Ame.sbury 
 Branch Railroad, the Dover Gas Light Company, 
 the Dover Improvement Association, the Eliot 
 Bridge Company ; and is a Trustee in the Pine 
 Hill Cemetery, the Children's Home, and the Home 
 for Aged People. He is a corporate member of 
 the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign 
 Missions, and Deacon and Treasurer of the First 
 Congregational Church of Dover. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Sons of the Revolution and of the 
 Society of the Colonial Wars. In politics he is 
 a Republican. Mr. Brown was married October 
 18, 1870, to Frances Bickford, daughter of Dr. 
 Alphonso Bickford of Dover. They have four sons : 
 Alphonso Bickford, born January 23, 1872, a 
 graduate of Andover, Yale College, and the Har- 
 vard Medical School ; Harold Winthrop, born 
 November 8, 1875, a graduate of Andover and of 
 Harvard College ; and Raymond Goold and Philip 
 Carter Brown, twins, born August 27, 18S5. 
 
 for Pensions from i872-'8S. He was appointed on 
 the staff of the Elliot Hospital in Manchester in 
 1889, holding this post until 1896, when he re- 
 signed on account of ill health, and was elected to 
 
 BURNHAM, HosEA Ballou, Physician, Man- 
 chester, was bom in Chester (now Auburn), New 
 Hampshire, October 15, 1829, son of Miles and 
 Salome (Hall) Burnham. ( )n the paternal side he 
 is descended from Robert Burnham, who emigrated 
 from Bristol, England, in 1635. On the maternal 
 side he traces his descent from Deacon Richard 
 Hall of Bradford, Massachusetts. He attended 
 the district schools of Chester, Gilmanton Academy, 
 New Hampshire Conference Seminary at Tilton, 
 and' Wesleyan University at Middletown, Connecti- 
 cut, until the close of the Junior year when he was 
 forced to give up his college course owing to ill 
 health, due to over study. Some time later he 
 began the study of medicine and surgery in the 
 office of the late Dr. W. D. Buck of Manchester. 
 He attended lectures at Iserkshire Medical College, 
 Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Harvard Medical College, 
 Boston, and the Vermont Medical College at Wood- 
 stock, where he received the degree of M. D. in 
 1853. He subsequently took a course at the Col- 
 lege of Physicians and Surgeons in New York city. 
 Dr. Burnham began general practice in 1854 in the 
 town of Epping, removing to Manchester in i888. 
 He was appointed Physician to the Rockingham 
 County Almshouse and the Insane Asylum con- 
 nected therewith in 1871, holding this position until 
 1888, and was United States Examining Surgeon 
 
 H. B. 1-iURNHAM. 
 
 the consulting .staff. He is a member of the Rock- 
 ingham District Medical Society, of the New 
 Hampshire Medical Society, and the American 
 Medical Association. While a resident of Rocking- 
 ham county he was frecpiently called into court to 
 testify as a medical or surgical expert. During the 
 thirty-eight years of his active professional work he 
 was frequently called in consultation with other 
 physicians, and had a large surgical practice. 
 Since his removal to Manchester, he has been very 
 frequently called in consultation especially in his 
 former field of practice. He is at present practi- 
 cally retired from active practice of his profession 
 on account of ill health. He has a large library 
 and spends much of his time with his books. He 
 was Superintendent of Schools in Epping, iS7o-'8i ; 
 a member of the State Legislature iii i885-'86; 
 Vice-President and Chairman of the Investino- 
 
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 Committee of the Epping Savings Bank from 1872 
 to 1889. He is a Mason, a Past Master of Sulli- 
 van Lodge, No. 19, Free and Accepted Masons of 
 Epping; a member of Lafayette Lodge of Man- 
 chester, and of St. Alban Chapter, l-loyal Arch 
 Masons of Exeter. He has not been active inpoli- 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 tics, but voted for the Democratic nominees from 
 General Pierce to General Palmer. He married in 
 1S92, Mrs. Lillia D. True of Manchester. 
 
 BURNS, Charles Henry, Lawj^er, Wilton, was 
 born in Milford, New Hampshire, Januar)' 19, 1835, 
 son of Charles A. and Elizabeth (Hutchinson) 
 Burns. The Burns family is of Scotch origin. 
 
 I 
 
 CHARLES H. T'.URNS. 
 
 The pioneer ancestor, John Ijurns, was born in 
 1700, came to this country in 1736, and settled in 
 Milford in 1746, where he died in 1782. His 
 descendants have lived there ever since. Elizabeth 
 Hutchinson traces her descent from Barnard 
 Hutchinson, who in 1282 was living in Cowlan in 
 the County of York. From his elde.st son, John, 
 Richard liutchinson, the pioneer ancestor of Mrs. 
 Burns, was descended. Richard came to America 
 and settled in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1635. 
 Nathan Hutchinson was one of the first settlers on 
 the territory within the present limits of Milford. 
 He was the great-grandfather of Mrs. Burns. The 
 subject of this sketch was educated in the common 
 schools of his native town, which were of an 
 unusually high order. He then attended the Apple- 
 ton Academy in New Ipswich, graduating in 1854. 
 He read law with Colonel ( ). W. Lull in Milford, 
 and was graduated from the Harvard Law School 
 in iSc;8. hi May of the same year he was admitted 
 
 to the Suffolk Bar, and in the following October 
 was admitted to practice in the New Hampshire 
 courts. In January, 1859, he commenced practice 
 in Wilton, where he has remained ever since, 
 though a steadily increasing business has necessi- 
 tated his opening an office in Nashua of late years. 
 He has been connected with many of the most 
 notable cases tried in the state's courts. Although 
 a good lawyer in all branches of his profession, he 
 is especially distinguished as an advocate. He has 
 one of the finest law and general libraries in New 
 Hampshire. In politics he has been a Republican 
 since the organization of the party. His father 
 was a strong worker in the anti-slavery movement, 
 and the son early evinced an interest in public 
 affairs. For years he has been one of the party's 
 ablest orators. In 1864 and 1865, he was elected 
 Treasurer of Hillsborough county. In 1873 ■^"'-^ 
 1879, '^^ "'^s ^ member of the State Senate, serving 
 during both terms as Chairman of the Judiciary 
 Committee. (lOvernor Cheney appointed him Solic- 
 itor for Hillsborough county in 1876, and he was 
 twice re-elected to that office. He was a delegate 
 to the Cincinnati National Convention of 1876, 
 representing" New Hampshire on the Committee on 
 Resolutions. He presided over the state conven- 
 tion in 1878, making a strong speech against the 
 greenback craze, which attracted nationa.l attention. 
 In 1879, he was made Judge Advocate General on 
 the Staff of Governor Head. He was appointed 
 LTnited States District Attorney for New Hampshire 
 in 1 88 1 and 1885. Although he had not entered 
 the field as a candidate, he had strong support in 
 the senatorial contest of 1883. He is a member of 
 the New Hampshire Historical Society and the. 
 New England Historical and Genealogical Society ; 
 an M. A. of Dartmouth ; and a Thirty-second degree 
 Mason. Mr. Burns married, January 19, 1856, 
 Sarah N. Mills of Milford. Of their eight children 
 four are living. 
 
 CARBEE, Samuel Powers, Physician, Haver- 
 hill, was born in IJath, New Hampshire, June 14, 
 1836, son of John Hancock and Annie (Powers) 
 Carbee. Flis father was of Scotch-Irish and his 
 mother of English descent. He received his educa- 
 tion in the common schools of his native town and 
 at Newbury (Vermont) Seminary. Later he at- 
 tended Dartmouth Medical College where he was 
 graduated November 3, 1865. He commenced the 
 practice of medicine in Haverhill, November 20, 
 1865, and has remained there ever since. Dr. Car- 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 13 
 
 bee was County Commissioner of Grafton county 
 from July i, 1885 to July i, 1SS9, Representative 
 from Haverhill in iS95-'g6, and was also Surgeon- 
 General on the Staff of Governor Jkisiel durine; the 
 
 S. p. CARI-IEE. 
 
 same years. From ( )ctober 26, 1S63, to the close 
 of the Civil War in 1S65, he was Assistant Svu'geon 
 of the Twelfth New Hampshire Volunteers. He 
 served on the School Hoard for three years from 
 1 88 7 and became President of the Trustees of Ha- 
 verhill Academy in 1897. He joined Kane Lodge, 
 F'ree and Accepted Masons, Lisbon, New Hamp- 
 shire, in August, 1862, and Franklin Chapter, Lis- 
 bon, New Hampshire, in 1863. He is a charter 
 member of Omega Council, joined the Mt. Horeb 
 Commandery, Concord, New Hampshire, in 1865, 
 and is Past Commander Nat Westgate Post, No. 50, 
 Grand Army of the Republic. Dr. C'arbee has al- 
 ways been a Republican. On September -1,0, 1885, 
 he married N. Delia fjuck. They have no children. 
 
 CHAPMAN, Jacok, Minister and Educator, 
 Exeter, was born in Tamworth, New Hampshire, 
 March 11, 1810, son of Samuel and Elizabeth 
 (Folsom) Chapman. He entered Exeter Academy 
 in 1827, Dartmouth College in 183J, and was grad- 
 uated from Andover Theological Seminary in 1S39. 
 In 1835 he was Principal of an Academy in Lyn- 
 don, Vermont, and from 1839 to 1841 held a simi- 
 
 lar position at Bridgton, Maine. In 1843, ^^ ^^' 
 moved to Pennsylvania for the improvement of his 
 health and taught about ten years in Myerstown, 
 Lancaster, and Harrisburg, preaching often for 
 churches of different denominations. He became 
 Pastor of the Congregational Church in Marshall, 
 Illinois, in 1852, and remained there twelve years. 
 Returning to New Hampshire, he took charge of a 
 church in Deerfield, where his labors were followed 
 by a remarkable revival. About one hundred and 
 fifty persons were added to the three different 
 churches of the town. After more than six years, 
 in this large parish, his health again failed and he 
 removed to Kingston, where he had long been 
 known as a teacher and preacher. After remaining 
 there for seven years, he removed to Exeter and en- 
 gaged in preparing the genealogies of his ancestors. 
 He published " A Genealogy of the Folsom Fam- 
 ily " in 1882 ; " The Philbrick Genealogy " in 1886 ; 
 "Leonard Weeks and Descendants" in 1889; 
 "The Lane Genealogies Volume i," in 1 891, and 
 " Edward Chapman and Descendants " in 1893. 
 He has also written a " History of Kingston, New 
 Hampshire." During his residence in Exeter he has 
 
 JACl)H CHAPMAN. 
 
 frequently been called upon to preach and has 
 spoken in most of the churches of the county. In 
 1840, Mr. Chapman married Mary C. Howe, who 
 died in iS6g. He was again married in 1S71 to 
 Mary E. Lane, of Stratham, N. H. 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 CONANT, Henry Estes, Lamidiyman, Con- 
 cord, was born in Barre, Massachusetts, May 24, 
 1843, son of George W. and Laura (Cheney) Co- 
 nant. He is a direct descendant in the ninth gen- 
 eration of Roger Conant, who, according to John 
 Wingate Thornton, was the first and only Governor 
 under the Sheffield or Cape Ann charter, as Endi- 
 cott was the first under the second or Massachu- 
 setts charter, and he is by some authorities rec- 
 ognized as the first Governor of Massachusetts. 
 The descendants of Roger Conant have been dis- 
 tinguished in the annals of this country and have 
 made their mark in all the various walks of life. 
 
 HENRY E. CONANT. 
 
 The great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch 
 was a soldier of the Revolutionary \^'ar, and an 
 earlier ancestor, Lot Conant, participated in King 
 Philip's War. It is said by the genealogist of the 
 Conant family that there were more of that family 
 in proportion to their number who participated in 
 the Revolutionary War than of any other family in 
 the colonies. The names of seventy-three are 
 known who served in that war. The ancestry of 
 this branch of the Conant family in England were 
 men of force and character, who rose from their 
 environments to positions of importance and dis- 
 tinction. Henry Estes Conant was educated in the 
 public schools of Barre and Springfield, Massachu- 
 
 setts, and Norwich, Connecticut. His father died 
 in i860, when he was but seventeen years of age. 
 The War of the Rebellion occurring a year later, he 
 enlisted in Company K, of the Twenty-first Massa- 
 chusetts Infantry for three years, and, at the close 
 of his term of service, re-enlisted for another period 
 of three years. Company K was raised wholly in 
 the town of Barre. The Twenty-first Regiment of 
 Massachusetts Infantry was one of the fighting regi- 
 ments of the war. It participated in twenty-two 
 battles besides various skirmishes. In 1864, the 
 regiment was transferred to the Thirty-sixth Massa- 
 chusetts Infantry, and, after Lee's surrender, was 
 consolidated with the Fifty-sixth Massachusetts In- 
 fantry. With the exception of thirty days' furlough 
 at the time of his re-enlistment, Mr. Conant saw 
 continuous service, from July, 1861, until he was 
 mustered out, July 12, 1865. At the time of his en- 
 listment, he was delicate in health, and the hard- 
 ships he endured, which to many of his comrades 
 brought impairment of their constitutions, made 
 him hardier and better able to make his way in life 
 when he returned to civic occupations. He moved 
 to Concord in 1879 and entered the employ of the 
 Concord Steam Laundry, which at that time was 
 the only laundry in the city. After service there 
 for five years he started a laundry of his own, in 
 which business he has been eminently successful. 
 In 1892, Mr. Conant was appointed a member of 
 the Board of Water Commissioners of the City of 
 Concord, for the term of three years, being the first 
 member of the board from the ward in which he resid- 
 ed. In 1 894, he was elected to the city government as 
 a member of the Board of Aldermen, and, upon qual- 
 ification, resigned from his position on the Water 
 Board. In 1896, he was re-elected to the Board of 
 Aldermen, being one of the few members to obtain 
 that distinction. He is a member of Blazing Star 
 Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Trinity Chap- 
 ter, Horace Chase Council, Mount Horeb Com- 
 mandery, and of Edwin A. Raymond Consistory. 
 He is a Thirty-second degree Mason. He is also a 
 member of Aleppo Temple, Ancient Arabic Order 
 Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Boston. He is a 
 member of White Mountain Lodge and Past Chief 
 Patriarch of Penacook Encampment of Odd Fel- 
 lows. Upon coming to Concord, he became a mem- 
 ber of E. E. Sturtevant Post, Grand Army of the 
 Republic. He is actively identified with the Society 
 of the Army of the Potomac and of Burnside's Asso- 
 ciation of the Ninth Army Corps. Mr. Conant mar- 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 IS 
 
 ried Josephine E. Huntle\', daughter of Augustus 
 T^ana and Mehitable Jane (Perkins) Huntley of 
 Topsham, Vermont, in Manchester, New Hamp- 
 shire, May I, 1S78. Their only child is Laura 
 Cheney Conant, who was born November 6, 1891. 
 Mr. Conant is one of the substantial citizens of Con- 
 cord. His residence there for a period of eighteen 
 years has made him many friends. He takes an 
 active interest in all public matters and such service 
 as he has had in pubhc life has been marked by 
 patient attention to the public needs. The same 
 industry that he gives to his own business is charac- 
 teristic of his work in public employment and he 
 enjoys the confidence and respect of his fellow citi- 
 zens. He takes great pride in the city of his adop- 
 tion and anything that has for its object the ad- 
 vancement of her interests receives from him cordial 
 support. 
 
 CONN, Granville Priest, Pliysician, Concord, 
 was born in Hillsborough, New Hampshire, January 
 25, 1832, son of William and Sarah (Priest) Conn. 
 Wilham Conn was the fourth generation in descent 
 from John Conn, who came from the north of Ire- 
 land about 1 7 12, and died in Groton, Massachusetts, 
 in 1759, at t'^^ '^S^ °^ seventy-six. Dr. Conn was 
 educated in the common schools in Hillsborough, 
 and at Francestown Academy, after which he spent 
 two years at the Institute of Captain Alden Part- 
 ridge in Norwich, Vermont. His professional edu- 
 cation was received at Woodstock, Vermont, and 
 Hanover, New Hampshire, and he was graduated 
 from the Medical Department of Dartmouth College 
 in the class of 1856, and received the degree of 
 A. M. from Norwich University, Vermont, in 18S0. 
 He commenced the practice of his profession in 
 Randolph, A^ermont, in 1856, and moved to Rich- 
 mond, Vermont, in 186 1. In August, 18C2, he 
 entered the army as Assistant Surgeon of the 
 Twelfth Regiment Vermont Volunteers, which was 
 a part of the Second Vermont Brigade (nine 
 months men) and was mustered out of the service 
 July 14, 1863. He settled in Concord, New Hamp- 
 shire, October 19, 1S63. In 1863, he became 
 a member of the Board of Health, and the following 
 year instituted the first sanitary inspection of a 
 whole city that was ever made in the state, and 
 probably the first house to house inspection ever 
 made in this country. After the State Board of 
 Health was established in Massachusetts in 1869, 
 Dr. Conn commenced working for a similar board 
 
 in New Hampshire, which was brought about in 
 1881. Pie was chosen its Chairman, and has been 
 its President ever since. In 1877, he was elected 
 Railroad Commissioner and re-elected in 1879. ^^ 
 is a member and Medical Director of the Grand 
 Arm)' of the Republic, Department of New Hamp- 
 shire, was President of the New Hampshire Medical 
 Society in 18S1, and has been its Secretary, with the 
 exception of two years, since 1869. He is a mem- 
 ber of the American Medical Association, the 
 American Public Health Association, the Inter- 
 national y\ssociation of Railway Surgeons, the 
 Medico Legal Association of New York, the New 
 
 GRANVILLE P. CONN. 
 
 Hampshire Medical Society, the Centre District 
 Medical Society, the Strafford District, and an hon- 
 orary member of the Vermont Medical Society. He 
 is also a Mason and Knights Templar, and a mem- 
 ber of the Society of Colonial Wars. In politics he 
 is a Republican. On May 25, 1858, Dr. Conn was 
 married to Helen M. Sprague of Randolph, A^er- 
 mont. The)- ha\'e two sons : Frank Winslow, a 
 civil engineer in Costa Rica, Central /Vmerica, and 
 Charles Fuller Conn, Treasurer of the Boston 
 Terminal Company, Boston, Massachusetts. 
 
 COX, Charles Edson, Warden of the New 
 Llampshire State Prison, Concord, was born in 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 Holderness, New Hampshire, December 2, 1S46, 
 son of Walter Blair and Nancy ( Nutter) Cox. He 
 traces his descent on the paternal side, from Scottish 
 ancestors. He attended the public schools of Hol- 
 
 CHARLES E. cox. 
 
 clerness and New Hampton, and the New Hampton 
 Institution. Until he was eighteen, he lived on his 
 father's farm. He was engaged in cattle trading 
 in Concord from 1866 to 1870, when he removed to 
 Manchester, where he continued in the same busi- 
 ness till April 2°, 1887, the firm being Cass & Cox. 
 In the following July, he obtained the control of the 
 wholesale beef and provision trade of the G. H. 
 Hammond Company at Manchester, engaging in 
 this business until August, 1896. He was a Repre- 
 sentative of Ward Six, Manchester, in the Legisla- 
 ture in i885-'86, and subsequently served as Coun- 
 cilman and Alderman from Ward Four. He was 
 appointed Warden of the State Prison, December i, 
 i8g6. He is a Thirty-second degree Mason, a 
 member of Washington Lodge, Mt. Horeb Chapter, 
 and Trinity Commandery ; an C)dd Fellow, a mem- 
 ber of Llillsborough Lodge and Mount Washington 
 Encampment ; and a member of Amoskeag Grange. 
 In politics he is a Republican. On November 23, 
 1S67, Mr. Cox was married to Evelyn Mary Ran- 
 dall. They have four children : Walter Randall, 
 Guy \\'ilbur, Louis Sherburne, and Channing Harris 
 Cox. 
 
 DAVIS, Samuel Wii.hert, Physician and Drug- 
 gist, Sanbornville, was born in Farmington, New 
 Hampshire, February 17, 1864, son of Samuel and 
 Betsy Caroline ( Hayes) Davis. On his father's 
 side he comes of English and Welsh stock, and is a 
 direct descendent of John Erskine, Earl of Mar. 
 His mother's family were of Scotch-Irish descent, 
 his mother being a niece of John Brewster, founder 
 of Brewster Academy at Wolfeboro, New Hamp- 
 shire. From the district schools of his native town, 
 he was sent to the Farmington High School, being 
 graduated in 1S82, and thence to New Hampton. 
 He was graduated from the New Hampton Commer- 
 cial College in 1885, and entered Bowcloin Medical 
 School in 1888, attending, also, the Portland School 
 
 SAMUEL W. riAVIS. 
 
 for Medical Instruction until his graduation from 
 Bowdoin in 1891. From 1885 to 1888, he had been 
 engaged in teaching. In Augu.st, 1891, he began 
 the practice of medicine in Alton, New Hampshire, 
 and July 4, 1893, removed to the town of Wakefield. 
 He has been engaged in professional work in 
 the village of Sanbornville and surrounding country 
 ever since. In May, 1896, he opened a drug store, 
 having passed an examination before the State Board 
 of Pharmacy, and he now conducts the business in 
 connection with his practice. He was a United 
 States Pension Examining Surgeon during President 
 Cleveland's administration. He is a member of the 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 17 
 
 Carroll County Medical Association, the Board of 
 Health in Waketield, Syracuse Eodye, Knights of 
 Pythias, Unity Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted 
 Masons, and Carroll Chapter of Wolfboro. In 
 politics he is a Republican, but believes in voting 
 for the best candidate for office. On November 19, 
 1885, he was married to Annie J. Montgomery of 
 Strafford, New Hampshire. They ha^'e two children : 
 Bessie Montgomery, and Charles Samuel Davis. 
 
 DONAHUE, John Joseph, Insurance Agent, 
 Keene, was born in Keene, New Hampshire, 
 August 7, 1859, son of James and Margaret (Quin- 
 lan) Donahue. He is of Irish descent. His edu- 
 cation was received in the public school at Keene. 
 For six years he was a clerk, a commercial tra\'eler 
 for four years, and for seven years he has been in 
 the insurance business. He is Grand Secretary of 
 New Hampshire, Foresters of America, having 
 been elected January i, 1896; was Sachem of 
 Pokahoket Tribe, lmpro\ed Order of Red Men, 
 Keene, from January 1, 1S94, to July i of the same 
 year; and was the first President of the Monadnock 
 
 JOHN J. DONAHUE. 
 
 Cycle Club after its incorporation. In politics he is 
 a Republican. Mr. Donahue is unmarried. 
 
 August 10, 1827, son of Edmund and Sarah (Ger- 
 rish) Dearborn. He is descended from Godfrey 
 Dearborn, who came from Exeter, England, in 
 163S, and settled in Exeter, New Hampshire. His 
 
 DEARBORN, Samuel Gerrish, Physician, 
 Nashua, was born at Northfield, New HamiDshire, 
 
 SAMUEL {-,. J)EARr;ORN. 
 
 maternal ancestor, Stephen Gerrish, came from 
 liristol, England, and settled in this country at 
 about the same time. He was educated at the 
 Sanbornton (New Hampshire) Academy and at the 
 New Hampshire Conference Seminary. He was 
 graduated from the Dartmouth Medical School in 
 November, 1849, and attended lectures at the Uni- 
 versity of New \'ork and at the College of Physi- 
 cians and Surgeons, New \'ork. When a boy he 
 worked on a farm and afterwards taught school. 
 After a few months' practice in East Tilton, he 
 opened an office in Mont Vernon in February, 
 1850, removed to Milford, New Hampshire, in 
 1853, and in 1873 went to Nashua where he has 
 remained ever since. He was a member of the 
 State Legislature of i867-'68. Pie was Surgeon of 
 the Eighth New Hampshire Volunteers until Octo- 
 ber, 1863, and of the Eighteenth New Hamp- 
 shire Volunteers from 1864 to the close of the war; 
 Pension Surgeon three years, appointed by the 
 President. General Butler appointed him in 1862 
 to examine the condition of the hospitals on the 
 Mississippi River below New Orleans and Lake 
 Lapon ; to be present at the battles at Baton Rouge 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 in the spring of 1862, all of which he attended and 
 reported to him. In 1864, he served three months in 
 the arm}- before Richmond, Virginia. He belongs 
 to the Order of the Loyal Legion, is a member of 
 the New Hampshire Medical Societ)', of the Ameri- 
 can Medical Association, and of the Masonic Lodge 
 at Milford, New Hampshire. In politics, he was a 
 Democrat up to the time of the war; he has been a 
 Republican ever since. On December 5, 1854, Dr. 
 Dearborn married Henrietta M. Starrett. They 
 have two sons : Dr. Frank A. and Samuel S. 
 Dearborn. 
 
 DRESSER, LoRiN A., Merchant, JJerlin, was 
 born in Albany, Maine, March 13, 1S66, son of 
 Jacob and Sylina (Beckler) Dresser. His parents 
 
 LORIN A. DRESSER. 
 
 moved to Berlin in 1879, ''^"'^' '""^ received the 
 common school education of the town schools and 
 then took a course at the South Paris Academy. 
 Pie entered the employ of the Berlin Mills Com- 
 pany as clerk in its general store, remaining with 
 the company eight years. He was afterwards 
 employed by C. C. Gerrish & Company, and Stahl 
 Brothers, and filled all demands made upon 
 him by these progressive firms. His work at these 
 different stores fitted him admirably for the posi- 
 tion which he was soon called upon to fill, that of 
 Manager of one of the largest dry-goods and fur- 
 
 nishing stores in the city. He started in business 
 August 22, 1895, leasing a store in the Clement 
 block and purchasing a small but carefully selected 
 stock of dry and fancy goods. In six months he 
 was obliged to have an addition built to meet the 
 demands of his increasing business. In October, 
 1896, he leased another store, and by throwing all 
 together, has one of the best equipped stores in 
 Coos county. Mr. Dresser was elected Councilman 
 for Ward Three in March, 1897, when Berlin 
 became a city. He is a member of the Knights of 
 Pythias and of the Ancient Order of United Work- 
 men. He is a Congregationalist. In politics he is 
 a Republican. On October i, 1888, he married 
 Emily D. Jewell of Berlin. Three sons were born 
 to them : Clarence Jewell, Norman Bates, and 
 Jacob William Dresser. 
 
 EMERSON, James Edward, Rector of the 
 Roman Catholic Church at Gorham, was born in 
 Stoneham, Massachusetts, son of Daniel and Cath- 
 erine (Morris) Emerson. His father's ancestors 
 were of English descent and his mother's of Irish, 
 He was educated in the public schools of Lowell. 
 
 JAMES E. EMERSON. 
 
 Massachusetts, at the LTniversity of Ottawa, Canada, 
 from which he was graduated in 1884, and later at 
 the Laval University of Quebec, Canada, being 
 graduated in 1888. In 189 1 he was Chancellor of 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 the Diocese, Rector of the Cathedral at Manchester 
 in 1895, and is at present Rector at Gorham. Since 
 locating there he has built a new church. 
 
 EASTMAN, Charlks Fr.\nivi.in, INIerchant and 
 Banker, Littleton, was born in Littleton, October i, 
 1S41, son of Cyrus and Susan French (Tilton) East- 
 man. His ancestry is English. He received his 
 education in the common schools of Littleton, in 
 Thetford (Vermont) Academy, in Kimball Union 
 
 CH.\RLES F. EASTMAN. 
 
 Academy of Meriden, New Hampshire, and later at 
 the Eastman Commercial College, Poughkeepsie, 
 New York. He has been a Director in the Little- 
 ton Savings Bank since 1884, was its A'ice-J'resi- 
 dent from i8go to 1895, and has been its President 
 since that time. He has been a Director of the 
 Littleton National Ijank since 1888; of the Eastern 
 Banking Company, Hastings, Nebraska, since 189G ; 
 of the Nashua Trust Company from 1890 to 1S92 ; 
 of the Granite State Fire Lisurance Compan)-, 
 Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1887 and 18S8 ; 
 and was Director and Clerk of the Profile &: Fran- 
 conia Notch Railroad from 1881 to 1889. In 1890- 
 '93 he was Selectman of his town ; Representati\'e in 
 i893-'94; Commissioner of the Littleton Highway 
 Precinct in 189 1-92 ; Commissioner of Littleton A'il- 
 lage District in i893-"9S ; Treasurer of the Union 
 School District, 1885-94; member of the Board of 
 
 Education, i882-'94; Trustee of the Littleton Public 
 Librar)-, iSiji-'gd. and Secretar\' of the Ijoard of 
 Trustees during these ^-ears. He is a Thirty-second 
 degree Mason, and was \\'orshipful Master of Burns 
 Lodge, No. 66, Ancient l''ree and Accepted Masons, 
 in i892-'93, and Imminent Connnander of St. Gerard 
 Commandery, Knights Templar, in i895-'96. Li 
 politics ]\L'. Eastman is a Democrat, and in 1882 
 was nominated for Treasurer of Grafton county, 
 and in 1896 for State Senator in District No. Two 
 b\- the Democratic conventions, but declined both 
 nominations. ( )n September 15, 1875, he was mar- 
 ried to Mar\' Ida Taft, daughter of Richard Taft. 
 They had two children : Richard 'J\ift and Ida Taft 
 Eastman. On March 4, 1891, he was a second time 
 married to Mary Rebecca Colb)', daughter of John 
 I). Colby. 
 
 EVANS, Alfreii Raxj)Ei.i,, Lawyer and Bank 
 President, Gorham, was born in Shelburne, New 
 Hampshire, March 21, 1849, ^"^^ "^ ' *'^^-'' '^'^'-^ Mar- 
 tha D. (Pinkham) Evans. His paternal great-grand- 
 father served under ^^'ashington at Cambridge and 
 his mother's father. Captain Daniel Pinkham, built 
 
 the Pinkham Notch riiad in the U'hite Mountains. 
 'Phe subject of this sketch recei\'ed his early educa- 
 tion in the common schools, in the Lancaster Acad- 
 em\', and at the Nichols Latin School, — connected 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 with ]!ates Oolleyc, — at Lewiston, Maine. He was 
 graduated from ] )aitmoutli College in the class of 
 1S72. In April, 1S71;, he was admitted to the Coos 
 County liar, and has practised law in Gorham ever 
 since. He was chosen President of the Berlin Na- 
 tional Pank upon its organization, February 18, 
 1891, and still holds the office. On January i, 
 1S95, he was appointed Judge of Probate for Coos 
 county. He was a member of the I^egislature in 
 i874-'75 and 1S78. He is a member of the Maynes- 
 borough Club, Berlin, and of the New Hampshire 
 Club, of Boston. He attends the Congregational 
 Church, and is an active member of the Masonic 
 Fraternity. In politics he has always been a Re- 
 publican. On June i, 1880, Mr. Evans was mar- 
 ried to Dora J. Briggs. They have no children. 
 
 ELLIS, BERTR.^M, Editor of the Daily and Weekly 
 Sentinel, Keene, was born November 26, i860, in 
 Boston, INIassachusetts, son of Moses and Emily 
 (Ferrin) Ellis. On the paternal side he is of Eng- 
 lish descent through the Walpole (Massachusetts) 
 branch of the Ellis family. On the maternal side 
 
 BERTRAM El, I, IS. 
 
 he is descended from the Ferrins of Londonderry, 
 New Plampshire, a Scotch-Irish stock. He attended 
 the common schools of Keene, fitted for college at 
 the Keene High School, and was graduated from 
 
 Harvard in 1884. After graduation from the Har- 
 vard Law School in 1887, he entered the law office 
 of Evarts, Choate & Beaman in New York, being 
 admitted to the New York Bar in 188S. P>om that 
 year to 1890 he practised his profession in Denver, 
 Colorado, for a part of the time in partnership with 
 L. C. Rockwell. He was called home to New 
 Hampshire by his father's death. Becoming inter- 
 ested in newspaper work he joined the Sentinel in 
 1 89 1, and two years later became its editor. He 
 was an Aide on Governor Busiel's staff in 1895 and 
 1S96, and in the following year served as a Repre- 
 sentative to the Legislature from Ward P'our, Keene. 
 He held the important post of Chairman of the Ap- 
 propriations Committee and there won much praise 
 for his labors for economy in state expenditures. In 
 politics he is a Republican, and has been President 
 of the Keene Young Men's Republican Club for the 
 last five years. He is a tru.stee of the Elliott City 
 Hospital ; a member of the Keene Board of P>luca- 
 tion ; Secretary for New Hampshire of the Harvard 
 Law School Association, and a member of the 
 Wentworth, Monadnock Cycle, and Country Clubs of 
 Keene. Mr. Ellis was married on June 20, 1S94, 
 to Margaret Louise Wheeler, of Minneapolis, Min- 
 nesota. 
 
 FARRINGTON, James, Physician, Rochester, 
 one of the oldest and best known practitioners in 
 the state, was born in Conway, New Hampshire, 
 June 10, 1822, son of Elijah and Lois L. (Earring- 
 ton) Farrington, On the paternal side his great- 
 grandfather was Stephen Farrington of Andover, 
 Massachusetts, who married Apphia Bradley, and 
 his grandfather was Jeremiah Farrington of Con- 
 way, who married Molly Swan of Fr}'eburg, Maine. 
 On the maternal side his grandfather was Samuel 
 Farrington of Hopkinton, New Hampshire, who 
 married Miriam Eastman of Concord. His early 
 education was acquired at Fryeburg, Bridgton, and 
 Limerick Academies, He began the study of 
 medicine in 1841 with Dr, Ira Towle in Fryeburg, 
 under whose instruction he remained till 1846. In 
 1844 he attended a course of lectures at Dartmouth 
 College, and in 1847 was graduated from the Medi- 
 cal Department of the University of New York. 
 In March of the same year he was graduated from 
 Dr. Whittaker's Medical School. Dr. Farrington 
 began the practice of his profession in Rochester in 
 1847, being associated with his uncle, James Far- 
 rington, M. I)., one of the most distinguished and 
 successful medical men of his day in New Hamp- 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 shire, a INIeiiiber of Congress and an influential 
 citizen. Upon the death of his uncle in iiSsg he 
 succeeded to the entire practice and has continued 
 it until the present time. He has been for many 
 
 JAMES FARRINC.TON. 
 
 years a member of the Strafford District Medical 
 Society and the New Hampshire Medical Society, 
 and has prepared essays on many subjects of pro- 
 fessional interest. He was elected f-'resident of the 
 Rochester National ]!ank in 1892, after ser\-ice of 
 many years as a Director of that institution, and a 
 Trustee of the Norway Plains Savings ]3ank. For 
 more than forty \-ears he has been a Mason, and he 
 has tilled many important offices. He served as 
 High Priest of Temple Chapter in Rochester for 
 eight years, having been elected at its organization. 
 He is also a charter member of Palestine Com- 
 mandery. Knights 'Femplar. He became a mem- 
 ber of the Motolina Lodge, Odd Fellows, in 1S48. 
 In politics he is a Democrat. Fie has held se\-eral 
 of the more important offices in the town, and in 
 1863 represented Rochester in the Legislature. In 
 1889 he was a member of the Constitutional Con- 
 vention. He was elected a member of Governor 
 Tuttle's Council, holding this office in 189 [-'92. 
 On F'ebruary 27, 185 1, he married Flarriette 
 Louise Chase. Two children have been born to 
 them : Nellie F"lorence (Farrington) McDuffee, and 
 Josephine Chase (Farrington) Sanborn. 
 
 F()S'I'FR, Josiiu.v L., is the oldest of a fam- 
 ily of five brothers, viz.: Joshua Lane, Joseph Ad- 
 dison, Daniel Kittredge, Lucius Augustus, and 
 Rinaldo Ih^ackett, sons of Daniel Kittredge and 
 Lydia (Lane) Foster. The father died in 1869, the 
 mother in 1875. ^^^ '•'^'^ brothers are now living 
 except Daniel K., who died December 13, 1897. 
 Joshua L., for whom this writing is intended, was 
 born at Canterbury, New Hampshire, October 10, 
 1824. When about three months old his parents 
 moved to Chichester, New Flampshire, to reside 
 with his mother's father, Joshua Lane, and there on 
 the Lane homestead he was reared. The father 
 being a noted school teacher of those days, at- 
 tended well to his early private instruction, then 
 sent him for se\eral years to the district school and 
 from there, later on, to Pittsfield Academy. He 
 continued there for four years, and had all the 
 advantages of that first rate institution. He then 
 spent about two years at (iilmanton Academy, then 
 returned for two or three terms to Pittsfield and 
 completed his academic education. He remained 
 on the home farm for a few years, then being of a 
 mechanical turn he learned the carpenter's and 
 builder's trade to which he devoted himself for two 
 or three years more. Hut this not being satisfac- 
 tory he went away to study architecture and geo- 
 metrical drawing under the instruction of Professor 
 ISenjamin Stanton of New York. After completing 
 this course he married Miss Lucretia Ann Gale of 
 Upper Gilmanton, now Pielmont, and returned to 
 his parental domicil for an intended permanent 
 home. I!ut it did not satisfy and he soon after 
 mo\-ed to Concord and opened an architect's office 
 where he pursued that |3rofession until the panic of 
 1857 came on, which brought his and almost every 
 other kind of business to a standstill. He had, 
 meanwhile, been a frequent contributor to the 
 newspapers, and having attracted public attention 
 in that way he was urged to enter the editorial field, 
 and with the late Dr. Joseph II. Smith bought the 
 Dover Gazette in 1858, entered into partnership 
 with Fdwin A. Hills, son-in-law of Dr. Smith, under 
 the firm name of Foster i!v Hills, and conducted the 
 paper for about three years when Mr. Foster sold 
 his interest to his partner and a few uKjnths later 
 returned to his architectural profession at Man- 
 chester, but only for a short time, until lanuary, 
 1863, when, on the urgent solicitation of leading 
 Democrats of the State, he went to Portsmouth 
 where no Democratic paper was then published, 
 and started the weekly States and Union. Later in 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 connection with the same he began the issue of the 
 Daih' Evening Times with such pectmiaiy aid as 
 was obtainable in those fateful days. It was con- 
 ceded by all that he made exceedingly vigorous 
 I)emocratic journals in accord with the principles 
 insisted upon b\- Democratic patrons and backers. 
 These papers were continued with unabated vigor 
 until June. 1870, when Mr. Foster sold out to a 
 couple of his employe's, and about a year later 
 returned to r)o\'er where — the Gazette having been 
 discontinued — he started the publication of Foster's 
 Weekly Democrat, the first issue appearing Janu- 
 arv I, 1872. It made a sensation by the vigor of its 
 editorial and local departments, and soon gained a 
 
 ;#«i|, )*.. 
 
 JOSHUA L. FOSTER. 
 
 large circulation. ]!ut a weekly paper having too 
 long \'acations between the issues, he decided to 
 start a daily and the first number of Foster's Daily 
 Democrat was issued on June 18, 1S73. It had 
 a hard struggle for several years. With the 
 Democratic leaders and managers it did not always 
 agree, and ne\-er hesitated to manifest its dissent 
 when the editorial con\-ictions required it. Its 
 independence caused party opposition and other 
 papers were started at dift'erent times for the avowed 
 purpose of crushing out the Daily and \^'eeklv 
 Democrat, but they utterly failed in their work. 
 With the verv effective aid of his two sons, Georo-e 
 J. and Charles G., well educated and practised in 
 
 the business, the Daily has been pushed onward 
 until no better and more successful newspaper 
 exists in the State, and none anywhere has a future 
 more secure. In 1885, soon after the inauguration 
 of Grover Cleveland as President, disagreeing with 
 his politics, the Daily Democrat came out squarely 
 against his administration, boldh' espoused the 
 Republican side in politics and has ever since 
 maintained its position with all the ability and vigor 
 at command. The twenty-six years of laborious 
 effort in this enterprise have been rewarded with 
 sufficient success so that a worldly competence for 
 the veteran editor and his family is assured. No 
 one has wielded a more ^-irile pen, and his strength 
 and abilities as a political writer are conceded by 
 all and never challenged to his detriment. Mr. 
 Foster ne\er had any desire or ambition for public 
 office, but has alwa)-s declined all tenders of the 
 kind. He has, however, been elected imanimously 
 for three successive seven year terms a member of 
 the Board of Trustees of the Dover Public Library, 
 one of the most successful in.stitutions of the kind 
 in New England. He has represented the political 
 party to which he belonged repeatedly in State 
 and other con\'entions and in platform committees, 
 where he has had the satisfaction of seeing his 
 ideas and principles generally pre\-ail. His aim 
 has always been to hold his party to sound princi- 
 ples rather than adopt any temporizing policy under 
 the alluring but baseless promise of party success. 
 So far as office is concerned he insists, as he always 
 has through his newspaper life, that the editorial 
 sanctum with its duties and responsibilities is the 
 best office in the world ; that it furnishes opportuni- 
 ties for the exercise of more influence and power 
 than any other, and therefore satisfies his aspira- 
 tions. The writer of this has always known Edi- 
 tor Foster, is conversant with the history of his 
 life, and could write a book full of interestin"- inci- 
 dents of his somewhat long and \'aried career, but 
 feels that the space here allotted is necessarily 
 limited to the more important points. His news- 
 paper work for the last foity years has been an 
 open book for everybody, and with it the public is 
 familiar. He is very much in the habit of thinking 
 for himself and writing and printing his honest con- 
 victions with a clearness and emphasis of expression 
 not to be misunder.stood and pretty sure to attract 
 the public attention. He reads nearly everything 
 worth reading so that his newspaper life has been 
 a continuous education and he is, therefore, well 
 fitted for his work. Quick of thought, he is a ready 
 
MEN OF IM<()GRt:SS. 
 
 23 
 
 writer of ample vocabulary and unvielding persist- 
 ence. His long experience in the profession 
 enables him to easih' determine what is suitable or 
 unsuitable for publication, and his decision settles 
 it. A wife, the two sons before named, and two 
 daughters, Lucia Ella, and Ena A'eille (both 
 married, the former to Mr. Mercer (Goodrich of 
 ]-!oston. the latter to Mr. Fred J. AMritehead of 
 Dover) comprise his familv. Although now ad- 
 \'anced bevoncl the allotted vears of man, vet at 
 this Christmastide A. I). 1S97, his mental faculties 
 are unimpaired, as strong and clear as e\er. and 
 his presence is plainlv manifest in the editorial col- 
 umns of the Dailv I )emocrat. 
 
 F'()\^'LER, Hkrschki, Joskph, Box Manufac- 
 turer, Keene, was born in Alexandria, New Hamp- 
 shire, April 23, 1849, son of Thomas L. and 
 Nancy ^L {(riles) Fowler. ( )n his father's side he 
 traces his descent from Abner Fowler, born in Kil- 
 karney, Munster coinit)-, Ireland, in 1635, who 
 came to America when a vfiung man and settled 
 in Sali-sburv, ^Fissachusetts. His great-grandfather, 
 Abner Fowler, was a soldier in the Revolution, and 
 his grandfather, I)a\-id Fowler, fought in the War 
 of 1812 and was wounded at Lundy's Lane. On 
 the maternal side he is descended from Captain 
 Liceness. who came to this country with Lafayette, 
 served under him in the Revolution, and at its 
 close settled in Stratham, New Hampshire, ^^'hen 
 his men returned to France the Captain paid them 
 off. taking in return the then almost worthless 
 securities of the United .States. Mr. Fowler was 
 educated in the common schools of his native town 
 and in the academies at Chesterfield, New Hamp- 
 shire, and Newbury, Vermont. In 1S66 he entered 
 the drug store of Howard & Holnian in Keene, 
 remaining there three )'ears. He was a year in the 
 clothing and dry goods store of XMiitcomb & 1 )un- 
 bar in that city, and for a time was emplo}-ed in a 
 clothing store in Milford, I\Lassachusetts. He had 
 a year s experience in a variety store in Medford, 
 Minnesota. In 1876 he bought his father's lumber 
 and stave mill in Chesterfield, which he carried on 
 until 1883, when in company with J- C. Joslin h.e 
 built a new mill and began the manufacture of 
 lock-corner wood packing boxes. About two years 
 later Mr. Joslin retired from the business. In 1885 
 Mr. Fowler engaged in the manufacture of pails, 
 an undertaking he conducted until the spring of 
 1886, when through circumstances over which he 
 had no control, he was obliged to give up business 
 
 temporarily. In Jul_\- of that _\-ear he was employed 
 by the late Ansel Dickinson to establish and man- 
 age a box business at Ashuelot, New Hampshire. 
 In May, 1890, he leased the box mill of E, Munsell 
 at Swanzey Factory; and in No\-ember, 1892, he 
 removed his business to ISeaver Mills, Keene, 
 where it is still located, employing twenty -five to 
 thirty-fi\'e hands in the manufacture of lock-corner 
 wood packing boxes. In May, 1S93, he bought 
 and sub-divided a portion of the (Tovernor Hale 
 property in Keene, laid out streets, and built 
 houses. 'He was elected a Supervisor in Chester- 
 field in 1885. In 1895 he represented \\'ard One 
 of Keene in the Common Council, and a year later 
 
 HERSCHKL J, FOWLER. 
 
 was elected an Alderman; reelected in 1897. In 
 politics he is a Republican. He is a member of 
 Lodge of Temple, Free and Accepted Masons. 
 Mr. Fowler has been twice married ; first on Sep- 
 tember II, 1876, to Ella M. Carpenter, who died 
 May 24, 1S87; a daughter, Nellie C, died May 20, 
 1887. On February 7, 1892, he was a second 
 time married to Madella Jjyam. He has two living 
 children : Fred H. and Grace E. Fowler. 
 
 HILL, G.4RIJNER Caleh, Physician, Keene, \vas 
 born in \^'inche.ster, New Hampshire, March 20, 
 1829, son of Caleb and Folly (Howard) Hill. He 
 received his early education in the public schools 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 of his nati\'e place, and afterwards attended the 
 academies at t'iiesterfield and Swanzey, New 
 Hampshire, and at Saxton's River, Vermont. He 
 was trraduated from the Castleton Medical Colleiie 
 
 twent}' years. In 1856 he was married to Rebecca 
 F. Howard of Walpole, New Hampshire. She died 
 in 1S93, and he was a second time married in 1894 
 to Carrie R. Hutchins of Keene. Having lost two 
 children in infancy, named Harriet and William, 
 he adopted three children: William H., Rebecca E., 
 and Daisy May Hill. Of these, only William H. 
 Hill is living;. 
 
 HIIJ^S, Andrew Jackson, Farmer and Me- 
 chanic, Winchester, was born in Winchester, New 
 Hampshire, October 20, 1851, son of Elisha and 
 Arvilla (Dickinson) Hills. His father was born in 
 Swanzey, New Hampshire, October 20, 1810, and 
 died in Wellsville, New Yorl<, December 30, 1889. 
 His mother was born in Swanzey, May 15, 1808, 
 and died in \\'inchester, October 5, 1889. His 
 paternal grandfather was Moses Hills, and his 
 maternal grandfather, William Dickinson. His 
 education was received in the district and village 
 schools. He was elected to the General Court of 
 the state for 1897-98. Mr. Hills is a Mason, a 
 Granger, and a member of the Eastern Star, the 
 
 (GARDNER C. HILL. 
 
 (Vermont) in 1856, and took a post-graduate med- 
 ical course at Har\'ard Medical College in 1866. 
 Before commencing the practice of his profession, 
 Dr. Hill taught school in Winchester, Swanzey, 
 and Keene, in all about twenty terms. He began 
 medical practice in Warwick, Massachusetts, in 
 1857, and remained there ten 3'ears. In 1867 he 
 removed to Keene and has been engaged in active 
 practice ever since. He was a member of the 
 Common Council from Ward Four for three years, 
 being President of that body for two )'ears, County 
 Commissioner for three years, County Treasurer, 
 two years. Member of the Board of Education in 
 Warwick, Massachusetts, for nine years, and in 
 Keene for twenty-five years. City l-'hysician seven 
 years, and County Physician fi\-e years. Since 
 April 1, 1897, he has been [^resident of the Keene 
 Savings Jiank, and is a member of the Keene 
 Board of United States Examining Surgeons. He 
 
 is also a member of the Cheshire County Medical Golden Cross, and the Pilgrim 
 Societ)'. Connecticut River Medical Society, and ties he is a Republican, 
 
 the New Hampshire Medical Society. In politics 
 
 Dr. Flill is a Republican, and has been Chairman JACKSON, (Jkorce I'rkiiei. 
 
 of Ward Four Republican ( lub in Keene for of Nashua, was born in Can 
 
 ANJJREW J. iin 
 
 ;iCK, City 
 nin"-, No\' 
 
 In poli- 
 
 Solicitor 
 a Scotia, 
 
MEN OK PROGRESS. 
 
 2S 
 
 February 14,1864,5011 of James T. and Sarah R. timies. In January, 1S97, he was elected City 
 (Smith) Jackson. His father was a descendant of SoUcitor of Nashua, and reelected in January, 
 
 1S98. Mr. Jackson is a niembei" of man\' organ- 
 
 \'\'illiam Jackson of Medford, Nova Scotia, whose 
 father was a native of Lancashire, Ensrland. ( )n 
 
 t;Et)Rc;E r. jacksun. 
 
 the maternal side he is a descendant of James 
 Smith of Oldtown, Maine, his grandfather being 
 William Smith of M'indsor, No\'a Scotia. Mr. Jack- 
 son received his early education in Boston, where 
 his parents remo\'ed when he was four years of 
 age, in its public schools and at the JSoston Com- 
 mercial College. He began his business life in the 
 wholesale smallware business as clerk, in a J:!oston 
 house, and Jater was employed as travelling sales- 
 man for some four years. He was ne,\t employed 
 in a manufacturing company, where by accident he 
 lost his right fore-arm. Shortly after recovering 
 from his injuries, he entered the law ofhce of Cap- 
 tain H. B. Atherton of Nashua, as a student at law, 
 where he remained for two years, after which time 
 he entered the Boston University School of Law, 
 and took the entire three years' course in two years, 
 graduating with the degree of LI^. B. from that 
 institution in June, 1894. The following [uly he 
 took the examination for admission to the New 
 Hampshire Bar, standing at the head of a class of 
 thirteen candidates. He immediately formed a 
 co-partnership with Edward H. Wason, under the 
 firm name of \\'ason i\: Jackson, which still con- 
 
 izations, among them being the ( )(ld fellows of 
 Nashua, the Elks of Manchester, Ivnights 'J'emplar 
 and Scottish Ivite 'Lhirty-second Degree Masonic 
 Bodies of fioston, Massachusetts. Mr. Jackson 
 served the State of Massachusetts in C'ompany I), 
 First Regiment Infantry (now Hea\')' Artillery) 
 Ro.\bury City Cuard of JJoston, for five years, and 
 is at present a member of the Ancient and Honor- 
 able Artillery Company of ISoston. In politics Mr. 
 Jackson is a Republican. 
 
 LEET, (jE()R(;e Ehward, Physician, Concord, 
 was born in Claremont, New Hampshire, March 29, 
 1851, son of George H. and Sarah F. (Chase) Leet. 
 His ancestors were among the first to settle in Con- 
 necticut, afterwards moving to Claremont, New 
 Hampshire. He receix'ed his education in the 
 common schools, and b)' the aid of private instruc- 
 tion. He entered 1 )artinouth Medical College and 
 was graduated in 1877. He began the practice of 
 
 medicine in Canaan, New Hampshire, in Septem- 
 ber, 1877, and continued in acti\'e ]3ractice there 
 for seventeen )'ears, when he mo\'ed to Concord. 
 In iS93-'94 he was a member of the School Board 
 of Canaan, also a member of the Board of Health 
 
2 6 
 
 MEN t)F FROGRKSS. 
 
 for several years. He is a member nf the New- 
 Hampshire Medical .Societ\' and the NN'hite Ri\'er 
 Valle\' Medical Society. He is a member of the 
 Masonic Lodge of Entield, St. Andrews Chapter, 
 and \\'ashington Council of Lebanon. He is also 
 an active meml^er of the American Mechanics and 
 also of the Grange, and has held offices in a number 
 of these societies. He is a member of the Metho- 
 dist Episcopal Societ)", and is a Republican. ( )n 
 F'ebruarv 14, 187S, he married Katherine E. Saw- 
 yer, of Claremont. The\' ha\"e two sons : (ieorge 
 Paul, born Eebruar)- 22. i.S,S4, and l-klward l)on 
 Leet, born July 25, 1S87. 
 
 LnSBEY, Ereii Sumner, f.umber Dealer, \\'olf- 
 boro, was born in Wolfboro, New Hampshire, Octo- 
 ber 17, 1865, son of Alvah S. and Abbie E. (Pray) 
 Libbey. After graduating from the \\'olfboro High 
 School in 1883, he entered the New Hampton 
 Literary Institution in .\ugust, 1883. He was 
 graduated in June, 1887, giving the honorary 
 address to his literary society, the Social Fraternity. 
 He next entered Bates College in August, 1887, 
 
 FREJJ .s. I.IIIHEV. 
 
 from which he was graduated in 1891, having the 
 parting address to his class, of which he was 
 President. After leaving college he was elected 
 Principal of the Camden. Maine, High School, 
 which position he held until Septembei', 1895, when 
 
 the death of his father called him home to settle the 
 estate. In October. 1896, he bought out the 
 interest of A. J. Varney, for thirty years a partner 
 of his father in the lumber and box business under 
 the firm name of Libbey & A'arney. In January, 
 1S97, he and his brother, E. J. Libbey, bought the 
 interest of the Libbev estate and are now canying 
 on a large and very prosperous box and lumber 
 business under the hrm name of Libbey Brothers. 
 Mr. Libbey was elected Moderator of the town at 
 the last election. In politics he has always been a 
 Republican. In religion, a Free ]5aptist. He was 
 married on August 27, 1892, to Sara E. Deering, 
 of Pittsfield, New Hampshire. They have two 
 children : FVederic Alvah and Elizabeth Louise 
 Libbey. 
 
 LIBBEY, Henrv Clay, Lumber Merchant, 
 Lisbon, was born in Bethlehem, New Hampshire, 
 August 2, 1839, son of Nathaniel and Tirzah (Lord) 
 Libbey. His great-great-great-great-grandfather, 
 John Libbey, was born in England about the year 
 1602, and came to this country about 1630 and 
 settled in what is now Scarborough, Maine. He 
 had twelve children. His oldest son, John Libbey, 
 was born in England but was reared in Scarbo- 
 rough, Maine. He took an active interest in the 
 public matters of the town, and served as Selectman 
 in the year 1670, also in the years 1674, 1683, and 
 1687. In May, 1690, he moved to Portsmouth, New 
 Hampshire, where he lived until his death. He 
 followed the calling of miller, and was frequently 
 chosen to fill the minor town offices. He lived to 
 a very old age. His son, Benjamin, was born in 
 Scarborough, Maine, June 4, 1682, moving to Ber- 
 wick, Maine, and living there until his death. He 
 was for many years one of the principal inhabitants 
 of the town, being frequently placed on the most 
 important Town Committees, and was from lyig to 
 1736 Selectman. He was one of the original Pro- 
 prietors of Lebanon, and took prominent part in 
 the early management of that township. He was a 
 Deacon of the Congregational Church for thirty-six 
 years. Mr. Libbey died November 9, 1768. His 
 son, Charles Libbey, was born in Berwick, Maine, 
 December 29, i72i,*and married Abigail Hilton, 
 December 27, 1744. He was a farmer, living and 
 dying on his father's homestead. His death 
 occurred in September, 1772. They had twelve 
 children. His .son. Captain Charles Libbey, the 
 grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born 
 in Berwick, Maine, December iG, 1749, was a 
 
MEN OV PROGRESS. 
 
 27 
 
 Revolutionan 
 
 ry soldier, and settled in l^ebanon in largest manufactories of its kind in the countiy. In 
 1791. Nathaniel Libbe\- followed the sea in his 1S94 he severed his connection with this enterprise, 
 early days, and later engaged in lumbering in and is now largely engaged in the lumber business 
 Bethlehem. The subject of this sketch was the in Rimouski, Province of Quebec. He is President 
 
 and Afanager of the Lisbon PUectric Light Com- 
 pany and a stockholder and Director in the Lisbon 
 r ^ -,;v National Pkmk. Mr. Libbey is strongly Republican 
 
 in his political views, but has ne\-er taken a very 
 ■' ; active interest in politics. P'or several years he was 
 
 Postmaster at Alder ]]rook. In 1894 he was a 
 member of the State Legislature. I-^e is a member 
 of Whiteheld Lodge, Ancient P'ree and Accepted 
 Masons, and is a faithful attendant of the Methodist 
 Church. On No\'ember 22, 1865, Mr. Lilibey was 
 married to Ellen M., daughter of Pfenry 'Phomas of 
 Pittleton. They have had four eliildren ; ISlanche 
 'P., born September 7, 1866; Herman 'P., Ijorn July 
 6, 1868; deceased August 9, 1897; Grace P^., born 
 June 13, 1878; and Ethel M. I^ibbey, born August 
 24, 1882. 
 
 H. C. LIKBEY. 
 
 youngest of a family of eleven children. At the 
 age of eleven months he was left fatherless, and 
 when he was seven years of age his mother died. 
 He was thus thrown upon the world at an early age, 
 and worked at different places for his board until 
 he was thirteen, when he began doing the work of a 
 man. He attended the common schools at White- 
 field, but his education was very limited. At twenty 
 years of age he bought a sawmill, paying three 
 hundred dollars down and giving his note for tweh-e 
 hundred. This, his first business venture, proved 
 successful, and in 1871 he bought the Alder Pirook 
 mill property which he managed successfully for 
 eighteen years, disposing of the mill to 'P. P. Green. 
 He then went to Lisbon, where he has since 
 resided. Li 1884 he organized the (iranite State 
 Glove Company, and became its President. This 
 concern consolidated with the Saranac (dove Com- 
 pany of Littleton, and Mr. Libbey is President of 
 the same. He had a share in forming the Parker 
 & Young Manufacturing Company in 1884, of 
 which he was made President. When its establish- 
 ment was burned in 1891, he was one of the leaders 
 in the rebuilding. At present it is one of the 
 
 LLSC()M, Lemuki, P'kankf.ix, Parmer, Hins- 
 dale, State Senator from the Pourteenth P)istrict, 
 was born in Hinsdale, Pebruary 17, 1841, son of 
 Lenuiel, 2d, and P^meranc}- (Horton) Liscom. On 
 the paternal side he is of English descent ; on the 
 maternal, Scotch and Pmglish. The I^iscom family 
 can be traced in the old records of Dorchester and 
 P)orchester South Precinct (now Canton), Massa- 
 chusetts, which show that Philip Liscom married 
 Charity J udson in 1701, and in 1708 mo\'ecl from 
 I^orchester to the South Precinct. His son, Philip, 
 2d, settled in Rehoboth (now Taunton), and his 
 grandson, Philip, 3d, was a resident of Canton, 
 whose children moved about 1787 to Hinsdale, 
 New Hampshire. Lemuel Liscom, ist, born April 
 3, 1767, was with his father and brother at the 
 defence of Dorchester and PSoston, Massachusetts, 
 in the Revolutionary War, and although he was but 
 twelve years old acquitted himself with credit. 
 He became a farmer and dealer in horses in Hins- 
 dale, and died July 7, 1S3G. Lemuel, 2d, who was 
 born February 19, 18 16, went to lioston in the 
 employ of Lyman & Ralston, the first dealers in 
 hard coal in that city. Subsecpiently, when he 
 went into business for himself, he was prosecuted 
 for selling coal, on the ground that it was stone ; 
 and found it useful to resort to the practice of keep- 
 ing a coal fire in his office all summer to demon- 
 strate the heating power of his wares. After eight 
 successful years he returned to Hinsdale, on 
 account of his wife's failing health, and engaged in 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 fanning and lumbering. He took a prominent part 
 in town affairs, served as Selectman and Justice of 
 the Peace, and held other town offices. Politically, 
 he was a Whig, and later a Republican. He was a 
 devoted member of the liaptist church, as was his 
 wife, a daughter of Hezekiah Horton, and a kins- 
 woman of I^ord Burnham of England. I^emuel F. 
 Liscom, the subject of this sketch, attended the 
 town schools, completing his studies at Kimball 
 Union Academy in i860. In August, 1S62, he 
 enlisted in Company A, Fourteenth New Hamp- 
 shire \'olunteers, and saw much ser\'ice. He was 
 on duty much of the hrst }'ear at the National Cap- 
 ital and along the Potomac ; was then transferred 
 to the Department of the Gulf and went with his 
 regiment up the Mississippi. He was at the siege 
 of Petersburg and at the second battle of Malvern 
 Hill; fought in eight engagements in the Shenan- 
 doah Valley ; and at Augusta, Georgia, had the 
 satisfaction of assisting Jefferson Davis on board a 
 United States gunboat. He returned from the ser- 
 vice with the rank of (Jrderly Sergeant. After the 
 war Mr. Ijiscom was employed by the National 
 Bridge and Iron Works, Boston, becoming Super- 
 
 I.KMUKI. I'-. I.TSCOM. 
 
 intendent of Construction, and in that capacit)' ha\- 
 ing charge of the building of the train houses of 
 the Boston iv Lowell and lioston & Pro\idence Rail- 
 roads. He put in the hrst iron bridge on the Ver- 
 
 mont Central at Dog river, constructed many fine 
 bridges and buildings, and was his own engineer. 
 Mr. Liscom returned to Hinsdale in 1880, to care 
 for his aged parents, and after his father's death 
 bought his farm, on which he now lives. He 
 makes a specialty of hay and tobacco, selling about 
 eleven tons of the latter each year. In i89i-'92, 
 and again in 1893-94 he served as a Representa- 
 tive in the State Legislature, and in 1897 took his 
 seat in the Senate, having been elected by the 
 largest majority vote ever cast in the district. 
 While in the Legislature he formed the first " Farm- 
 ers' Legislative Council " ever held in the state, 
 its object being to give weight and influence to the 
 agricultural element. He was one of the first to 
 advocate moving the Agricultural College to Dur- 
 ham, in order to secure the Benjamin Thompson 
 school fund, and he has been a warm friend and 
 supporter of the college. During his first term in 
 the House he was Clerk of the Committee of 
 Roads, Bridges, and Canals, and in his second, 
 Chairman of the Public Improvements Committee. 
 As a Senator he is Chairman of the Committee on 
 Claims. In the House Mr. Liscom introduced a 
 bill providing for an electric railroad from Hinsdale 
 to Brattleboro, Vermont, which was defeated. On 
 its second introduction, however, both parties 
 agreed to refer it to the Supreme Court. As a 
 Senator he introduced a measure to give the Con- 
 necticut River Water Power Company a franchise 
 to build a water system across the river between 
 Brattleboro and Hinsdale, for generating electricity 
 and other power. Mr. Liscom is a strictly temper- 
 ate man and a hard worker in the interests of his 
 constituents. In politics he is a Republican. He 
 is a member of the Masonic Commandery in 
 Keene; of Sheridan Post No. 14, Grand Army of 
 the Republic ; of the Red Men ; and of the Grange. 
 He married, February 21, 1872, Dollie Amelia, 
 daughter of Orvin T. Mason of Truthville, New 
 York, a woman of noble character, wdio died March 
 2, 1896, lea\'ing two children: Flora Dollie, born 
 January 22, 1875, and Mary Edith Liscom, born 
 October 31, 1878. 
 
 LITTLE, George Peabody, Farmer and Stock 
 Raiser, Pembroke, was born in Pembroke, New 
 Hampshire, June 20, 1834, son of Elbridge Gerry 
 and Sophronia Phelps (Peabody) Little. He is in 
 the eighth generation from George Little who set- 
 tled at Old Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1640. He 
 received his early education at the Lewiston and 
 
MKN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 29 
 
 Pembroke academics, and at tlie Military Institute churcli, and lias always been a Repulilican. On 
 at Pembroke — a branch of the Norwich Military August 22, 1854, he married I'^lizabeth Ann Knox. 
 Academy of A'ermont. At the age of eighteen he 'J'hey have si.x children living: Clarence Belden, 
 taught school. The following )ear he left home to I'residcnt of the ]'"irst National fiank of Rismarck, 
 
 i)akota, who has been a State Senator since 
 Dakota became a state; Mary Georgiana, wife of 
 jiSser^ James K. Odlin, of Lynn, Massachusetts ; l^lizabeth 
 
 ^•w ■ Ellen, wife of L. F. 'I'hurber, of Nashua ; Nettie 
 
 K., wife of F'rank F^. Shepard, Concord; Lucy 
 ■■^^^, liowman ; and Clara ]''rances, wife of Harman S. 
 
 >;..^*-« >^.^](^ ,,f Brooklyn, N. ^■. One child, George Wil- 
 
 lard Little, died in i8:;8. 
 
 LOLKjEF^ Gki)R(ie W'oodworih, Physician, 
 Freedom, was born in Effingham, New Hampshire, 
 June 3, 1859, *on of Sylvester 'J', and Ruamah 
 (Burleigh) Lougee. On the paternal side he is of 
 French descent, and on the maternal of English. 
 He attended the common schools of Effingham and 
 I'arsonsfteld Seminary, and began his professional 
 studies under the instruction of Dr. Augustus D. 
 Merrow of Freedom, long a leading practitioner, 
 and was graduated from Bowdoin College in the 
 medical class of 1883. He was first associated with 
 
 c;eorc;e p. little. 
 
 engage in mercantile business at Portland, JNLrine. 
 Here he remained six years, and then went to F!os- 
 ton for a short time. During the ne.xt ten years he 
 managed a photograph gallery at Palmyra, New 
 York. In 1868 he returned to Pembroke, pur- 
 chased the present homestead, and engaged in 
 farming and the raising of blooded .stock, making 
 Jersey cattle a specialty for a time. Mr. Little was 
 Deputy Collector of United States Revenue in Pal- 
 myra, New York, in i866-'67, Town Treasurer of 
 Pembroke in i88i-'82. Selectman in i887-'88-'S9, 
 was elected to the Legislature in 1876 and 1877, 
 when elections were annual, and in 1891; was a 
 member of the Constitutional Convention in 18S8; 
 was County Treasurer four j'ears ; and is a Justice 
 of the Peace. He is a Trustee of the Guaranty 
 Savings Bank of C'oncord, and also of the Pem- 
 broke Academy. For many years he was Chair- 
 man of the Executive Committee of the latter, and 
 is now Secretary and Treasurer. He is a member 
 of the Concord Historical Society and the New his tutor, but later established a practice of his own, 
 Hampshire Club of Boston. He is a Thirty-second which has been large and lucrative. F'or three 
 degree Mason, a Knights Templar, and an Odd years he was a member of the School Board of 
 Fellow. He is a Deacon in the Congregational F^ffingham, and for the same length of time held a 
 
 (:i-:o. w. LOU 
 
3° 
 
 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 similar office in Freedom. In 1S97 and '98, lie ^vas 
 elected a Selectman of the latter to^n. Since 
 January. 1S87. he has been Ooroner for Carroll 
 county. He is a member of Carroll Lodge, Ancient 
 Free and Accepted Masons of Freedom ; Carroll 
 Chapter of \\"olfborough ; St. Paul Commandery 
 of Dover ; Costello Tribe, Red Men, of Kezar 
 Falls, Maine ; Prospect Lodge, Independent Order 
 of ( )dd Fellows, of Freedom, of which he was the 
 lirst Noble Grand ; Mt. Chocorua Encampment of 
 Madison ; Carroll County Medical Society, of 
 "\\hich he was President in 1895, and New I-lanip- 
 shire Medical Society. He is a Democrat, and has 
 taken a ^-ery actix'c interest in politics. On Novem- 
 ber 25, 1885, he was married to Edith Louise Mer- 
 row. daughter of Dr. Augustus D. Merrow. They 
 ha\-e two children : lionise Marguerite, born Sep- 
 tember 16, 1893, and Hayes Lougee, born Decem- 
 ber 6, 1896. Dr. I.,ougee has a \-erv wide circle of 
 friends in and out of his profession. 
 
 NF\^"^0^^ LeRoy Allan, Physician, Walpole, 
 was born in Greenfield, Massachusetts, January 
 28, 1863, the son of Allan Nims and Anna Maria 
 
 LEROY A. NEW'J'ON. 
 
 (Ferguson) Newton. He attended the common 
 schools of Greenheld. and for two vears was a 
 pupil at the high school of the town. At the age 
 of fifteen he obtained employment, and learned the 
 
 tinner and plumber's trade, and a little later 
 acquired another trade, that of a watchmaker. 
 \\'hile emplo\-ed hv a jewelry firm in Saratoga, New 
 York, he gave much attention to physical culture, 
 becoming a highly successful instructor in this 
 branch in the Yoimg Men's Christian Association 
 g)-mnasium at Saratoga, and the Glenns k'alls g3'm- 
 nasium. He had read medicine for a year, when 
 he entered the medical department of the University 
 of Pennsylvania in 1892, being graduated in 1895 
 with the degree of M, D. For a time he practised 
 in l^oston, but at the beginning of 1896 removed to 
 \\'alpole. He is a Charter ^Member of the Saratoga 
 Gentlemen's Club, and a member of the Saratoga 
 Choral Ihiion, the New Hampshire Medical Society, 
 the Cheshire County Medical Society, and the New 
 Hampshire Surgical Club. He is the author of a 
 number of papers on professional t<.)pics. In poli- 
 tics he is a Republican. Mr. Newton was married, 
 September 15, 1897, to Minnie Isbell. 
 
 McCOLL ESTER, Sullivan Holm an. Clergy- 
 man, Instructor, Traveler, and Writer, Marlborough, 
 was born in that town December 18, 1826, son of 
 Silas and Achsah (Holman) McCollester. He is of 
 Scotch descent, his ancestor, Samuel McCollester, 
 coming to America as Captain of a company of sol- 
 diers with his brother, who was captured by the 
 Indians, and held as prisoner for some time. They 
 settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Sullivan 
 McCollester now owns and lives upon a farm pur- 
 chased by his great-grandfather, Isaac McCollester, 
 who settled in Marlborough, in 1764. He attended 
 the schools of the town, early developing a strong 
 taste for study, and at the age of fifteen became a 
 pupil in a select school, and afterwards received a 
 thorough academic training in the seminaries at 
 Swanzey, Dublin, Jaffrey, ^^'inchendon, Massachu- 
 setts, and Pjrattleboro, Vermont, He entered Nor- 
 wich University in the winter of 1847, and was 
 graduated in the summer of 1851, Two years 
 later he was graduated from the Cambridge Divinity 
 School, and took charge of the Mount Cssar Semi- 
 nary at Swanzey, New Hampshire. Dr. McColles- 
 ter— the degree of D. D. was conferred upon him 
 
 by St. Lawrence University (New York) in 1874 
 
 had seen practical service as a teacher in Richmond 
 and Walpole before taking his collegiate course, 
 and proved himself thoroughly fitted for his post at 
 Swanzey. There he did double duty for five years, 
 preaching as well as teaching, organizing two new 
 church societies in different parts of the town 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 31 
 
 which prospered exceedingly under his care. I'hen 
 for four years he was Pastor of the lTni\-ersalist 
 societies in ^^'estmoreland and \\'est Ohesterheld, 
 preaching part of the time in each town, building 
 up the membership of the societies and increasing 
 their religious zeal. Successful labors in charge of 
 the A'alley Seminary showed that his interest in 
 educational matters was as keen as ever. During 
 his residence in ^^'estmoreland, he was elected 
 School Commissioner of Cheshire countv, an office 
 he held until 1859. He was also appointed Presi- 
 dent of the State Board of Commissioners, and in 
 the winter visited schools and lectured on education, 
 while in the spring he held Teachers' Institutes. 
 He was called to ^^'estbrook Seminar)-, near Port- 
 land. Maine. April. 1S61. Of this institution he 
 was the head for eight years, his administration 
 being marked by a phenomenal growth of the 
 school, which reached its greatest de\'elopment 
 under his care. In 1864, he obtained a charter for 
 a Female College, the first State-chartered institu- 
 tion of the kind in Xew England. In the course 
 of his stay at ^^'estbrook. moreover, he built up a 
 prosperous church. Hard work and a hard climate 
 told upon Dr. McCollester's health, and in the sum- 
 mer of 1866 he found it necessary to la\' down his 
 labors for a time and travel abroad ; and two years 
 later he was obliged to give up the school, and seek 
 a region less trying than the Maine coast. His 
 next charge, the pastorate of the I'niversalist 
 Church in Nashua, brought him more hard work 
 and more success. The congregation grew ; a par- 
 sonage was bought ; societies in various depart- 
 ments were formed ; and it was with deepest regret 
 that at the end of three ^'ears his resignation was 
 accepted. Dr. McCollester had been called to the 
 presidency of liuchtel College. Akron, ( )hio, where 
 for six years he again prox'ed himself an indefati- 
 gable worker in the interests of the college, besides 
 building up a strong church in the city. Ill-health 
 once more forced him to seek rest and change 
 of scenes abroad, but in 1S79 he was resolutely 
 engaged in forming a church and building a church 
 edifice at ISellows Falls, \'ermont. In less than two 
 years from the time he undertook the work, a 
 strong and united parish was worshiping in a new 
 and commodious edifice, free from debt. His next 
 charge was in Dover, and there he repeated the 
 difi:cult achievement of turning a weak church into 
 one full of vigor and earnestness. He resigned the 
 pastorate in 1885, and since then has devoted him- 
 self to foreign travel, literary and missionary work, 
 
 and the supervision of public schools. He is the 
 author of " After 'I'houghts of Foreign Tra\-el in 
 Historic Lands and Capital Cities;" " Round the 
 Globe in ( )ld and New Paths;" ■ IJabylon and 
 
 S. H. JlrCOLLKSTER. 
 
 Nine\-eh through American Eyes;" and " Mexico. 
 ( )ld and New, a M'onderland." He has corres- 
 ponded for the Boston Transcript, the Boston [our- 
 nal, the Christian Leader, the Journal of Educa- 
 tion, Portland Transcript, and many other papers. 
 In iSSq-'qo, he \\-as in the New Hampshire Legis- 
 lature and was Chairman of the Committee on 
 Education. He has been for some )ears President 
 of the New Hampshire Uni\-ersalist State Con\-en- 
 tion. and is an earnest temperance worker and 
 organizer. He has usually voted with the Republi- 
 can party. Dr. McCollester is a Free Mason, 
 belonging to the Pilue Lodge in Winchester, the 
 Chapter in Portland, Maine, and the Knights Tem- 
 jjlar in Keene. ( )n November 23, 18152, he mar- 
 ried Sophia Fanny Knight of Dununerston, A"er- 
 mont. They have had four children : Eda Sophia, 
 Caroline Knight, Lee Sullivan, and Edwin Fay 
 jMcCollester. Lee Sullivan McCollester is a cleror- 
 man in Detroit, Michigan, having been Pastor of 
 the Church of Our Father for ten years. Dr. 
 McCollester's life has been extraordinarily busy 
 and useful. Since 1866, he has spent in foreio-n 
 travel some five years. His object has been to 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 study the people, as well as the lands and places. 
 He has been at five different times in Ireland, Eng- 
 land, Scotland, France, Germany, Switzerland, and 
 Italy ; once in Russia, Norway, Sweden, and Spain ; 
 twice in Belgium, Holland, and Genoa; three times 
 in Egypt, Palestine, and Turkey ; once around the 
 world, spending considerable time in Japan, China, 
 India, islands of Indian Ocean ; went up the Per- 
 sian Gulf to Babylon and Nineveh and through 
 Arabia ; through the United States and Mexico. 
 He has visited the Universities of Dublin, Edin- 
 boro, (\\ford, Cambridge, Paris, Berlin, Leipzig, 
 Munich, Vienna, Tunis, Heidelberg, Padova, 
 Bologna, Rome, Athens, Bombay, Tokio, etc. He 
 visited many of the public and private schools of 
 these different countries. In all, including our own 
 country as well as foreign, he has been into more 
 than a thousand different schools corresponding to 
 our common schools. He has lectured since 1870 
 more than nine hundred times in various places on 
 his travels, educational subjects, and temperance. 
 He has attended since he entered the ministry in 
 1853, eight hundred and fift)?-three funerals. He 
 has married rising two hundred couples. During 
 the forty-five years in the ministry, he has preached 
 sixteen hundred different times on Sundays, but his 
 chief work has been clone in the seminary and col- 
 lege. 
 
 PATTERSON, Samuel P'olsom, Secretary of 
 the American International Association of Railway 
 Superintendents of Bridges and Buildings, Concord, 
 was born in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, January 
 23, 1S40, son of loab and Mary Levering Patter- 
 son. He numbers among his ancestors some of 
 the first settlers of the state, men of sterling worth 
 and broad and liberal views, who bore their part 
 in directing the social and political tendencies of 
 the Commonwealth. Pie received his early educa- 
 tion in the district schools and in the academy at 
 Contoocook. He served three years in the army, 
 reenlisted in 1865, was commissioned First Lieu- 
 tenant, and served until his regiment was mustered 
 out. liefore going to the front he was an employe' 
 of the Concord X: Montreal Railroad, and after the 
 war he returned to the company, becoming foreman 
 of the bridges department and subsecjuently being 
 promoted to his ]3resent position of .Superintendent 
 of Bridges and Buildings. He has served the road 
 for thirty-four years with zeal and fidelity. In 
 iSQS-'Qfj, he was Alderman from Ward Six, Con- 
 cord, and in i897-'98, was Representative from the 
 
 same ward. He is an Odd Fellow, a member of 
 Rumford Lodge. In politics he is a stalwart 
 Republican, and a firm and practical advocate of 
 temperance. In October, 1864, Mr. Patterson was 
 
 S. F. PATTERSON. 
 
 married to Susan E. Hersey, and in October, i8go, 
 to Mrs. Ida M. Paul. He has two children : 
 George H. Patterson and Mrs. Mary H. Ring. 
 
 ROBINSON, PIenry, Lawyer and Journalist, 
 PJx-Mayor, E.x-Postmaster of Concord, was born in 
 that city, July 14, 1852, son of the late Nahum 
 Robinson, Warden of the New Hampshire State 
 Prison. Nalrum Robinson was a contractor and 
 builder, who did much toward the advancement of 
 the city, of Concord. He was the first construction 
 agent of the post-office building", superintended the 
 erection of the fine railway station, and was in fact 
 the Building y\gent of the Concord Railroad for ten 
 years. Henry Robinson attended the public schools 
 of Concord, and studied under private tutors at 
 Boston and elsewhere ; attended the Boston Univer- 
 sity Law School ; and later returned to his native 
 city to pursue his legal studies with the late Judge 
 Josiah Minot, Attorney-General Mason W. Tappan 
 and John Y. Mugridge. He was admitted to the 
 Bar in 1875. In the successful practice of his 
 profession he was associated with Colonel F"rank 
 H. Pierce, a nephew of President Pierce, and also 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 33 
 
 with Edgar H. Woodman. Mr. Robinson early 
 developed a strong liking for politics. In 1879 he 
 was elected a member of the Legislature, and since 
 then he has repeatedly served in that body. In 
 188 1 he was a strong candidate for Speaker, but 
 withdrew in the interest of his father-in-law, the 
 late United States Senator Edward H. Rollins, who 
 was a candidate for re-election. In 1883 he was a 
 member of the Senate. In both branches of the 
 Legislature he served upon important committees, 
 being Chairman of the House Railroad Committee 
 at the time of one of the most memorable contests 
 in New England, and Chairman of the Judiciary 
 Committee of the Senate, although he was its 
 youngest member. He was active in all legislative 
 proceedings, and gained the reputation of an able 
 debater. In May, iSgo, he was appointed Post- 
 master of Concord. He served four years and 
 achieved great success in the conduct of the office. 
 In 1895 he was elected Mayor of Concord, and 
 served two years. In spite of the many other 
 demands upon his time he has written much and 
 well, for newspapers and for the periodical press. 
 
 HENRY ROBINSON. 
 
 As a political writer he has been especially active, 
 and his nom de plume of " Jean Paul " has become 
 exceedingly well known among New England 
 newspaper readers. He has been a voluminous 
 contributor to journals out of New England as well 
 
 as in it, and has been on the staff of the New \'ork 
 Tribune, Springfield Republican, IJoston Globe and 
 other leading newspapers out of New Hampshire, 
 while he has furnished to the press of the state a 
 vast amount of readable matter. He is the author 
 of many papers on non-political topics. While 
 Postmaster he prepared a number of articles upon 
 subjects connected with the service which brought 
 him the commendation of the Postmaster General. 
 As a lecturer he has been very successful. In 
 religion he is liberal. In politics he is a Republi- 
 can. Mr. Robinson was married October 10, 1878, 
 to Helen M. Rollins, only daughter of Senator 
 Rollins. Thev have se\'en cliildren. 
 
 RUSSELL, Frank Wh;i;.sriiR, Merchant, Ply- 
 mouth, was born in that town [une 22, 1847, the 
 son of William Wallace Russell and Susan Carleton 
 (Webster) Russell. He comes of a family whose 
 members have distinguished themselves in the mili- 
 tary service of their country. His father, a mer- 
 chant of Plymouth for fifty-fi\'e years, «'as the son 
 of Moor Russell, who was a soldier in the Revolu- 
 tionary \\'ar, and who was in peace a successful 
 farmer and merchant, and the founder of the busi- 
 ness now conducted by his grandson. Moor Rus- 
 sell's wife, Betsey Webster Russell, was a daughter 
 of Lieut. Colonel David Webster, who commanded 
 a regiment of militia in the Ke\'olution. Still a gen- 
 eration further back Pelatiah Russell of Litchfield, 
 New Hampshire, ser\'ed as a Lieutenant in the " Old 
 French W'ar." Mr. Russell attended the schools of 
 Plymouth until he was ten years old, and later he 
 studied in a private school at Concord, Phillips 
 Academy, Andover, the Mayhew and the Latin 
 schools of I!o.ston,the High .School at Detroit, Mich- 
 igan, and the Collegiate and Commercial Institute 
 at New Haven, Connecticut. He was appointed a 
 Cadet at the United States Military Academy at 
 West Point, being graduated |une i^, 1868. He 
 was a Second Lieutenant in the Sixth Cavalry, serv- 
 ing with his regiment at New ( )rleans and on fron- 
 tier duty in Texas, Kansas and the Indian Terri- 
 tory. I'pon resigning from the army he returned 
 to Plymouth. In 1872 and 73 he was interested 
 with his brother, M'illiam W. Russell, |r., and 
 Hazen I). Smith in the manufacture of buck gloves, 
 and in February of the next year, became book- 
 keeper for Webster, Hull & Company, merchants. 
 This firm was succeeded in 1875 ^y Webster, Rus- 
 sell & Company, which still continues in business. 
 Mr. Russell, who was the junior member at its 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 formation, is the surxiving partner. He serx'ed in 
 the New Hampshire National Guard on the staff of 
 General Daniel M. \Miite. brigade commander, a.s 
 Captain and Aide-de-C'amp from Mav j8, 1884. to 
 December 11, 1SS5, and as Major and Assistant 
 Inspector-General from December 11, 1885, to 
 
 FRANK W. RUS.SELL. 
 
 May 15. 1889. He is a member of the Sons of the 
 American Re\-(ilution, Cavalry Society Armies of 
 the United States, United States Cavalry Associa- 
 tion, Militar\' Service Institution, Olix-e liranch 
 Lodge, No. 16, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, 
 Pemigewasset Chapter, No. 13, Royal Arch Masons, 
 Omega Council, No. 9, Rox'al and Select Ma.sters of 
 Plymouth, and Pilgrim Commandery, Knights Tem- 
 plar of Laconia. In politics he is a Republican. 
 Mr. Russell "\\'as married October i, 1873, f'' 
 Louisa Webster Hall. Two of his children, Clara 
 Louise and Mary Louise Russell, died in infancv. 
 His eldest son, \\'illiam Wallace Russell, is a bank 
 clerk at \^'ells River, Vermont, and another son, 
 George Moor Russell, is a West Point Cadet. His 
 other children, Susan Carleton, Walter Hall, Louis 
 ^^'ebster, and i-'rank Henr)- Russell, are attendinf)- 
 Phmouth schools. 
 
 of Daniel H. and Lvdia Sanborn. He was brought 
 up on his grandfather's farm in \A'akefield and edu- 
 cated at the common schools and Academy in that 
 town. At the age of eighteen, he began teaching 
 school in the winters and continued most success- 
 fullv in this work for twentx' terras. \A'hen a young 
 man he purchased a farm and became an active 
 and industrious farmer. Soon after he also engaged 
 in buying and taking cattle to the markets, and car- 
 ried on a lumber business which up to 1870 was 
 extensive. He had a large probate business for 
 some years. He was a Selectman of the town of 
 \^'akefield in i856-'57, was a member of the Legis- 
 lature in 1 86 1 -'62, a member of the Executive Coun- 
 
 SANBORN, John- William, Railroad Superin- 
 tendent and Ranker, Sanborn\-ille, was born in 
 \^'akeheld, New Hampshire, January 16, 1822, son 
 
 JOHN W. SANBORN. 
 
 cil in 1863, was a State Senator in i874-'75, being 
 President of the body during the latter year, was a 
 member of the Constitutional Conventions of 1876 
 and 1889 and was Democratic candidate for Con- 
 gress in 1880. He has been a Trustee of the New 
 Hampshire Insane A.sylum ; is now a Trustee of the 
 New Hampshire Agricultural College, a Director of 
 the Manchester & Lawrence Railroad, and of the 
 Portsmouth Fire Association, Director and Vice- 
 President of the Granite State Fire Insurance Com- 
 pany and President of the \\-olfboro Loan and Bank- 
 hig Company. Earl_\- in life he became interested 
 in the improvement of the means of transportation 
 and travel, and was active and instrumental in the 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
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 extension of the Portsmouth, Great Falls l\; Conway 
 Railroad. From 1S74 to 18S4 he was Superintend- 
 ent of the Conway Division of tire Eastern Railroad; 
 is now and has been from that time Superintendent 
 of the Northern Division of the Ijoston & Maine 
 Railroad ; was acting General Manager of the Bos- 
 ton & Maine Railroad from February 4, 1S92, to 
 March i. 1894. Sanborn\'ille, at the junction of 
 the main line of the Northern Division of the Bos- 
 ton & Maine Railroad and the Wolfboro Branch, 
 was named for him, and it is through his acti\ity 
 and effort that the place has been built up to be 
 one of the most important in Carroll county. Mr. 
 Sanborn was a strong Union man during the war 
 and was active in enlisting soldiers for the service, 
 contributing large sums of money to carry on the 
 cause, and was influential in matters of state relat- 
 intr to the war. 
 
 PIPER, Ch.\rlks Francis, of Wolfboro, son of 
 Benjamin Y. and Hannah (Evans) Piper, was born 
 at Lee, New Hampshire, May 22, 1849. ^^^ grand- 
 father, John Piper, served in Colonel Scammel's 
 
 CHARI.KS V. PIPIiR. 
 
 Regiment in the Revolutionary War from 1777 to 
 1780, and was Corporal in Captain Jacob Smith's 
 Rangers in 1781. Mr. Piper received his education 
 in the common schools and at the Wolfboro and 
 Tuftonboro Academy. From 1868 to 1872 he was a 
 
 clerk in a countrj- store, and was a postal clerk on 
 the route from fJoston to JSangor from 1872 to 
 1876. He then commenced business in a clothing 
 .store in Wolfboro, in which he .still continues, and 
 has been Cashier of the Wolfboro Loan and Ijank- 
 ing Company since it was incorporated in i8go. 
 He held the office of Postma.ster four years ; has 
 ser\'ed as Town Clerk; was Representative in the 
 Legislature of 1887 ; has been 'Pown Treasurer ten 
 )-ears ; a member of the Republican State Committee 
 since 1878, having served on the E.xecutive Com- 
 mittee for several years ; and has been a Delegate 
 to every Republican State Convention since 1S80; 
 and is at present a member of Go\'ernor Ramsdell's 
 Council. He belongs to the Morning Star Lodge 
 of Masons, Carroll Chapter, ( )rphan Council, and 
 St. l-'aul Commandery ; also to the ( )rder of Red 
 Men, and Lake Shore (irange. He married Ida E. 
 Durgin, December 10, 1874. They have one son: 
 Carroll I ). Piper. 
 
 SANGER, 'Pha])J>k.i:is P>ra, Homitopathic Phy- 
 sician, Littleton, was born in 'Proy, N'ermont, March 
 12, 1832, son of E>zra and Sarah M. (IJrown) San- 
 ger. He is the grandson of Eleazer Sanger, who 
 was the third of that name. VAtazer Sanger the 
 second was born in Petersham, Massachusetts, in 
 1735, and with his brothers Iv.ra and Abner was at 
 the taking of Quebec and Fort 'Piconderoga, during 
 the French and Indian war. 'I'hey were also mem- 
 bers of the foot company from Keene, New Hamp- 
 shire, \Yhich marched on the alarin from Bunker 
 Hill. Richard Sanger who was born in England, 
 and was the first of the family to come to America, 
 settled in Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1636. In 
 1790, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch 
 moved to St. John.sbury, \'erniont. Dr. Sanger 
 recei\'ed his education in the common schools of his 
 nati\'e town and in the St. Johnsbury Academy, 
 graduating from the latter at the age of eighteen. 
 He then taught school for some time, after which he 
 accepted a position in a drug store in Toledo, Ohio. 
 Here he began the study of medicine and after two 
 years attended lectures in Philadelphia. He then 
 entered the office of Doctors Stone i.\; Sanborn at 
 St. lohnsbury, and also studied with Dr. Darling of 
 Lyndon, A'ermont. A little later he entered the 
 Honueopathic College at Philadelphia, from which 
 he was graduated in 1856. He first settled in 
 Hardwick, Vermont, remaining there two years. In 
 1S58, he moved to Littleton, where he has been in 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 active practice e\ei- since. He has the distinction 
 of being the tirst physician of his school in Northern 
 New Hampshire. He has been most successful 
 professionally and financially, and is highly esteemed 
 as a citizen. Formerly, his practice extended over 
 a wide field but lately has been confined to the town 
 of Littleton. In 1867, the honorary degree of 
 Doctor of Homteopathic Medicine was conferred 
 
 T. E. HANCiER. 
 
 upon him in recognition of services. He was 
 appointed by the general government in 1871 to the 
 position of Surgeon for the United States l-'ension 
 Bureau. This position he held until the Cleveland 
 administration, when he resigned. Since 1865, he 
 has been a member of the New Hampshire Medical 
 Society, of which he was President for several years. 
 In 1S70, he joined the American Institute of Hom- 
 ceopathy. He is a member of IJurns Lodge, Ancient 
 Free and Accepted Masons, of Littleton, joining in 
 December, 1870. In 18S2, he was made a Knights 
 Templar, and in 1885 became a Thirty-second 
 degree Mason. He has been Master of his lodge 
 and has held the important offices of the order in 
 the state. Dr. Sanger married lanthe C. Kneeland, 
 daughter of \\'illard H. and Cleora (Woods) Knee- 
 land of Victory, Vermont. They have three daugh- 
 ters : Fllen I. Sanger Parker, an artist by profession 
 deceased March 3, 1890, and Lillian E., now Mrs. 
 F. E. Green, and Katherine Sanger of Littleton. 
 
 RICH, Gkorch Frank, Lawyer, Berlin, was born 
 in Bethel, Maine, December i, 1869, son of James F. 
 and Sarah Ellen (Bean) Rich. When he was eight 
 years old his family moved to the West, living in 
 Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Manhattan and 
 Lawrence, Kansas. He attended the public schools 
 in these places, and returning to Bethel in 1S86, 
 fitted for college in Gould Academy in that town. 
 For three years he was a student in the University 
 of Maine, leaving that institution in 1891. He next 
 attended the Law School of the University of 
 Michigan, being graduated in 1893, and subse- 
 quently admitted to the Bar of Michigan. In July, 
 1894, after studying for a year in the office of 
 R. N. Chamberlin, in Berlin, he was admitted to 
 the New Hampshire Bar; and in October of the 
 same year became junior partner in the law firm of 
 Chamberlin & Rich, which still continues. He was 
 appointed Judge of the Police Court of Berlin 
 by Governor Busiel in June, 1895, and now holds 
 that office. He is a member of the Republican 
 State Committee, the Knights of Pythias, and 
 the Ancient Order of United Workmen. On June 
 
 (JEURGE F. RICH. 
 
 10, 1896, Mr. Rich was married to Persis M. 
 Mason of Berlin. They have one son : Robert 
 Rich. In his college days he took an active part in 
 athletics, and after going to Berlin played on the 
 local base-ball team, which achieved the reputation 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 of the best nine in Nortliern New Hampshire. 
 ReceiVly, ho\ve\'er, pressure of business has forced 
 him to give up the pastime. 
 
 SPALDING, John Augustine, lianlver, Nashua, 
 was born in Wilton, New Hampshire, May 29, 1S37, 
 son of Moses and Anna H. (Kimball) Spalding. 
 
 JOHN A. SPALDING. 
 
 He traces his descent from Edward Spalding, who 
 came to America from England about 1630, and 
 who founded here a family, many of whose members 
 have distinguished themselves in the financial 
 world, in the workshop, in science and in medicine, 
 in philanthropy and in statesmanship. Mr. Spald- 
 intr was educated in the district schools of Wilton, 
 and in Crosby's Academy, Nashua. At the age of 
 thirteen, he went to work as a clerk in a clothing 
 store, and at nineteen began business in Nashua on 
 his own account. When the First National Bank 
 of the city was established in 1863, he was elected 
 Cashier, a post he held for thirty -two years. Then 
 he was made Vice-President of the institution, 
 his son, William li. Spalding, succeeding him 
 as Cashier. Mr. Spalding has dealt extensively 
 in real estate and has many other interests. He is 
 a Director in the Wilton and Worcester, Nashua & 
 Rochester Railroads, and was the first President of 
 the Nashua Street Railway. He is a Trustee of the 
 New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane. He was 
 
 Chairman of the first Poard of Police Commissioners 
 for Nashua. In 1865 and 1S66, he was a Repre- 
 sentative in the Legislature and in 1870 a Senator. 
 He was a member of the Governor's Council in 1883 
 and 18S4, and Mayor of Nashua in 1885. He was 
 a Garfield Elector, a Delegate to the St. Louis Con- 
 vention of 1896, and Chairman of the Republican 
 State Committee in 1S96 and 1897. He is a Thirty- 
 second Degree Mason and an Odd Fellow, having 
 passed through the officers' chairs in Odd F'ellows, 
 both branches, and he is a Red Man. Mr. Spald- 
 ing was married on October 13, 1859, ^'^ Josephine 
 E. Eastman. Of his children, William E., born 
 December 13, i860, and Harry E. Spalding, born 
 June I I, 1862, the former survives. On November 
 24, 1870, Mr. Spalding was again married to Anna 
 M., daughter of Dr. E. J. Learned of Fall River. 
 
 STONE, Melvin Ticknor, Physician, Troy, 
 was born in West Poscawen (now Webster), New 
 Hampshire, July 20, 1S54, son of Hiram G. and 
 Mary Ann C. (Ticknor) Stone. His great-grand- 
 father. Captain George Stone, was born in Lex- 
 
 MELVLN r. STONE. 
 
 ington, Massachusetts, in 1760, and served five 
 years in the Revolution. On the return of peace he 
 settled in Poscawen, with only twenty cents with 
 which to begin life. He, in time, acquired land 
 enough to give each of his eight children a home- 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 stead. jNlarv Ann Ticknor was a sister of \^'illiam 
 D. Ticknor of the firm of Ticknor & Fields, pub- 
 lishers, of ]!oston. Dr. Stone was educated in the 
 common and private schools of his native town and 
 at the New Hampton I^iterary Institute, graduating 
 from the Commercial Department in 1873. He 
 then worked upon the farm until 1876, when he 
 commenced the study of medicine with Dr. F. A. 
 Stillings of Concord, New Hampshire. He was 
 graduated from Dartmouth Medical College in Nov- 
 ember, 1879. In February, 1S80, he went to Troy 
 and entered upon the practice of his profession as 
 successor to Dr. B. pj. Harriman, where he has 
 remained e\er since, being the onl)- physician in the 
 town. He was appointed Superintending School 
 Committee in the years i882-'85,was a member and 
 Chairman of the School Pjoard in 1S86, and was 
 again chosen a memljer in i89o-'92. In 18S7, 
 he was elected a Representative, and served upon 
 several committees. He was chosen Town Clerk in 
 1888, and has held the office until the present time. 
 He was a trustee of the Public Library in 1894 and 
 again in 1897. In 1896, he was elected one of the 
 Supervisors of the Check List, has been Health 
 ( )fficer and member of the Board of Health for sev- 
 eral )'ears, and a Justice of the Peace since 1885. 
 He was a member of the Board of Pension Examin- 
 ing Surgeons at Keene during President Harrison's 
 Administration. Dr. Stone is the author of a His- 
 tory of Troy, published in 1897, and is also one of 
 the Trustees of the Fitzwilliam Savings Bank. He 
 is a member of Monadnock Lodge No. 88, Free 
 and Accepted Masons, of Troy, and was Worshipful 
 Master for three years, 1886 and 1888, is a member 
 of Cheshire Chapter, Royal Arch Masons and Hugh 
 de Payen Commandery Knights Templar of Keene. 
 He is also a member of the New Hampshire, the 
 Cheshire County, and the Connecticut Ri\'er N'alley 
 Medical societies, having been President of the last 
 two, and the present Council of the New Hampshire 
 Medical .Society. In politics he has alwavs been a 
 Republica)!. Dr. Stone was married January j6. 
 1882, to Cora M., daughter of Charles \\'. \^'hitney. 
 Of their three children only one is living : Mildred 
 Ticknor Stone, born March 17, 1889. 
 
 WALKER, Reuhe.n Euokne, Lawyer, Concord, 
 was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, February 15, 
 185 1, son of Abiel and Mary (Powers) Walker. He 
 was educated at the district school in \\'arner. New 
 Hampshire, and at the Colby Academy, New Lon- 
 don, New Hampshire. Later he entered Brown 
 
 University, and was graduated with the class of 
 1875. He studied law in Concord with Sargent & 
 ("base, and since his admission to the Bar in 1878, 
 has been in active and successful practice there. 
 He is a member of the firm of Streeter, Walker & 
 
 REUllE.N E. WAEKER. 
 
 Hollis. From 1889 to 1891, he was Sohcitor for 
 Merrimack county. He represented the Sixth 
 Ward of Concord in the Legislature of 1895. In 
 politics he is a Republican. On June 18, 1875, 
 Mr. Walker was married to Mary E. Brown. They 
 ha\'e one daughter : Bertha Mav \^'alker. 
 
 \^'EEKS, Fr.\nk, Lawyer, Centerville, was born 
 in Wakefield, Carroll county, New Hampshire, 
 August 31, 1 85 1, son of Algernon Sidney and 
 Sarah Jane (Rogers) Weeks. In the paternal line 
 he is of the seventh generation from Leonard 
 Weeks, son of John and Anne Wyke of Moreton, 
 Somerset County, England, born in 1639, -ind an 
 emigrant to America. Leonard Weeks in i66o-'6i 
 was living at Winnicut River, in Greenland, New 
 Hampshire. John Weeks, his great-grandson, was 
 one of the first settlers of Wakefield, in 1772. On 
 the maternal side, Frank Weeks is descended from 
 John Rogers of Jackson. His early education was 
 obtained in the common schools of Wakefield and 
 the Wakefield Academy. In 1867 he began teach- 
 ing, but in 1870 took up the study of medicine with 
 
MEN OF PR()GRESS. 
 
 39 
 
 Dr. George M'. Tebbetts of Ossipee. A few months 
 later he began reading hiw in the office of Sanborn 
 B. Carter of Ossipee. Subsequently he studied 
 with Colonel S. D. Quarles of the same town, and 
 later with L. D. Sawyer of Wakeheld. In 1873 he 
 was appointed an Inspector of Customs at Boston. 
 He was in the service until April, 1875, devoting 
 his spare time to legal studies in the offices of May- 
 nard cV Hills, and Frank H. Hills. Admitted to 
 the New Hampshire Bar ( )ctober 22, 1875, at Ossi- 
 pee, he began practice in that town, where he has 
 since remained. His legal business has been lucra- 
 tive, extensive, and varied, yet he has also engaged 
 to a considerable extent in dealinirs in real estate. 
 
 some time in the earlier da)-s of his legal practice, 
 and is now one of the Auditors of Carroll county, 
 but he has declined a number of nominations, 
 among them that for County Solicitor. In politics 
 he is a Kepublican. He married August 1, 1883, 
 Mary Isabel, daughter of Joseph Quarles and Mary 
 F^lizabeth Roles of ( )ssipee. 
 
 W'lNSLOW, Shkrf.urn ]., Bank Treasurer and 
 Manufacturer, I^ittsheld, was born March 16, if<34> 
 at Nottingham, New Hampshire, son of Josiah 
 and Ruth (Tucker) W'inslow. IjOth his paternal 
 grandfather and grandmother were said to be 
 direct descendants of lOdward Winslow of the 
 Mayflower Colony. His maternal grandfather, 
 James Tucker, was a farmer of Pittsheld and was 
 born in Salisbury, Massachusetts, in 1776. Mr. 
 ^^'inslow was educated in the common schools of 
 his native place and later at the academies of Pitts- 
 field, Pembroke, and New London. F'rom 1S53 to 
 i860, his summers were spent upon a farm and the 
 rest of the year he taught school, at which occupa- 
 tion he was very successful. F'rom i860 until 1878 
 
 FRANK WEEKS. 
 
 He owns se\'eral thousand acres of land in Ossipee 
 and other towns, as well as handsome holdings of 
 town property in his own neighborhood and Massa- 
 chusetts. His homestead of one hundred and se\-- 
 enty-five acres affords opportunity for indulgence of 
 his liking for agricultural pursuits. He is a lover 
 of out-of-door life, and at Weeks's Park on the shore 
 of Ossipee Lake, on a tract which was the strong- ^^ 1^ wrNsr.ow. 
 
 hold of the Ossipee Indians, and what still shows 
 
 traces of their burial ground and a fort built as a he engaged in farming and general business. He 
 protection against the raids of the Mohawks, he then followed manufacturing and dealing in lumber 
 has erected a delightful summer home. Mr. Weeks until within four or fi\'e 3-ears, when other interests 
 has not sought office. He was a member of the ha\'e taken his attention to such a degree as to 
 superintending school committee of Ossipee for compel him to withdraw gradually from his busi- 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 ness. He had charge of the construction of the 
 water works for Merrimack county as well as for 
 the towns of Tilton and Pittslield, and was Super- 
 intendent of the Pittslield ^^■ater Works for about 
 ten years, being one of the principal owners, and at 
 present, one of the 1 )irectors of the company. He 
 has also been, ever since its organization, a large 
 owner and a Director of the Gas company in the 
 same place. For the past four years he has been 
 interested in the management of the Exeter Manu- 
 facturing Company, is a stockholder and Director, 
 and is now and has been for the last three years Treas- 
 urer of the company, fn the fall of 1897, he was 
 elected Treasurer of the Pittsfield Savings Bank, 
 with which he had been connected as Auditor, 
 member of Investing Committee and of the Board 
 of Trustees for seventeen years. This position 
 he now holds. He is also a large owner of real 
 estate in his own and adjoining towns. For more 
 than forty years he has almost constantly had 
 the charge of the settlement of estates and the 
 management of trust funds. Mr. \A'inslow never 
 sought political office, but has been and now is a 
 member of the School Board. He is a Free Mason 
 and a member of the Episcopal Church, having been 
 Treasurer and Warden of the society for years. He 
 is a liepublican in politics. On March 19, i860, 
 he married Margaret Denison. They have two 
 children : Cora, wife of James L. Hook, and Nellie, 
 wife of Dr. F. H. Sargent. 
 
 He was two years at Genesee College of New 
 York, one year in the Medical Department of the 
 University of the City of New York, and for two 
 years in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 
 the Medical Department of the Columbia Univer- 
 
 ADAMS, Daniel Simmons, Physician and Sur- 
 geon, Manchester, was born in Lockport, Niagara 
 county, New York, May 3, 1846, son of David and 
 Adelia Maria (Griffs) Adams. In the paternal line. 
 Dr. Adams traces his descent from David Adams, 
 born October 19, 1797, in Londonderry, New 
 Hampshire, and died January 9, 1868, in Lockport, 
 New York; James, born May 5, 1765, married 
 Anna Griftin and li\ed in Londonderry ; Edmund, 
 born October 24, 1740, a resident of London- 
 derry, married Hannah Thurston ; i-lichard, born 
 November 22, 1639, married Susannah I^ike, and 
 li\'ed in Newbury, Massachusetts ; Abraham, born 
 in 1639, resident of Newbury, Massachusetts, 
 married Mary l^ettengill ; Robert Adams, born in 
 1 601, and also a resident of Newbury. The 
 family is descended from John A. Adams, Baron 
 of Somersetshire, England. Daniel S. Adams 
 attended the district schools at Lockport, New 
 York, and the Ifnion School in that town, and 
 Pinkerton Academy of Derry, New Hampshire. 
 
 DANIEL S. ADAMS. 
 
 sity of New York, from which he was graduated 
 with the degree of M. D. February 28, 1872. He 
 was for a year in the New York Hospital, ending 
 his term of service there in the fall of 1872. In 
 September of that year he began his practice in 
 Manchester, where he has since remained. He was 
 Treasurer of the New Hampshire Medical Society 
 from 1 88 1 to 1891 ; President of the Board of Cen- 
 sors of the New Hampshire Medical Society from 
 
 1886 to date; a delegate to the International Medi- 
 cal Congress at Washington, District of Columbia, 
 
 1887 ; Associate Supreme Medical Examiner of 
 Royal Templars of Temperance Insurance Order, 
 headquarters at Buffalo, New York ; Surgeon to 
 Elliott Hospital, Manchester, New Hampshire; Con- 
 sulting Surgeon to Children's Home, Manchester, 
 New Hampshire. He is a member of the New 
 Hampshire Medical Society, of the American Med- 
 ical Association, of the International Medical Con- 
 gress. He is a member of the First Congrega- 
 tional Church. He is a Mason, Knights Templar, 
 and Thirty-second degree. He has always been a 
 Republican. Dr. yVdams married, November 17, 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 41 
 
 1870, Cora Anna, daughter of Andrew and 
 Margaret A. Fox of Auburn, New Hampshire. 
 Mrs. Adams died Februar)' 22, 1898, after an 
 ilhiess of eight months. 
 
 BEAN, Alfred Elmer, Postmaster of ]5erhn, 
 was born in Dummer, New Hampshire, July 20, 
 1S64, son of Caleb Fuller and Tirzah (Eang) liean. 
 His parents were natives of Maine, being descen- 
 dants of the early settlers of that state. His father 
 came to New Hampshire as a young man and en- 
 gaged in the lumber business, settling first in Dum- 
 mer and afterward removing to Milan. The sub- 
 ject of this sketch becoming discontented with the 
 quiet farm life, at the age of fourteen, bought his 
 time and faced the world for himself. F"or the next 
 seven years, he was employed as driver of a team 
 for Daniel Webster Hodgdon, lumber merchant. 
 During the summer he worked on a farm. In the 
 fall of 1885, he went to ISerlin with the determina- 
 tion of securing an education. \\'hile living in the 
 home of Dr. H. ¥. \\'ardwell working for his board, 
 he attended the Berlin High school. In the spring 
 
 ha\'e three daughters : Elizabeth \\'ardwell, Dorothy, 
 and Margaret Wilson Bean. 
 
 Al.l'REIl E. l;EAi\'. 
 
 of 1888, he entered the employ of the Berlin Mills 
 Company, and held his position until he was ap- 
 pointed Postmaster of Berlin, October i, 1897. In 
 politics, Mr. Bean is a Republican. He married 
 September 2, 1890, Fannie A. Wardwell. They 
 
 JiLAIR, Hknry Willtam, Ex-llnited States Sen- 
 ator from New Hampshire, was born December 6, 
 1834, at Campton, New Hampshire. His father 
 was a man of unusual abilities, an excellent scholar, 
 a talented musician, and a recognized leader in the 
 town. On the maternal side he was descended 
 from the Bakers of Candia, a family noted in 
 Colonial and Revolutionary times. The Blair stock 
 is Scotch-Irish, and many of the members of the 
 family were prominent in the old Scotch-Irish 
 Colony in Londonderr)-. Henry \^'illiam lilair's 
 father died when the boy was two years of age. 
 His widow was left in straitened circumstances, 
 and when the 3'oungest son, Henry, was six years 
 of age, she arranged with Samuel Kenniston, a 
 leading resident of Campton, to take him for a 
 )'ear, while she went to Lowell, in quest of work in 
 the factories there, b}? which she might secure the 
 means to support and educate her children. This 
 \'enture of hers was not successful, and in the sum- 
 mer of 1842 she returned to Campton, but soon 
 went with her children to Plymouth, where for the 
 next year she supported them by sewing. Richard 
 Bartlett, one of the jDrosperous farmers of Camp- 
 ton, was attracted by the boy Henry and offered to 
 give him a home in return for such services as he 
 could render. So in May, 1843, the lad started 
 out to begin to earn his own living, and for several 
 years his home was with Mr. Bartlett. In 1846 
 Mrs. Blair died, and from that time on her son 
 fought the battle of life, aided only by such friends 
 as he made for himself. Until he was seventeen 
 he worked upon the farm in summer and attended 
 the district school in winter. In the autumns of 
 1 85 1 and 1852, he was a pupil of Holmes Acad- 
 emy at Plymouth, then under the control of Rev. 
 James H. Shepard, and in 1853 attended the New 
 Hanrpshire Conference Seminary for one term. He 
 worked for a mechanic for one year, and was 
 expecting to resume his studies, when his employer 
 failed and he lost his wages. liefore he could 
 secure another situation he was prostrated with an 
 illness, which left him broken in health and com- 
 pelled him after a long struggle to give up his hope 
 of a collegiate training. For three years he worked 
 on farms and taught schools in New Hampshire 
 and Massachusetts, sold books and did whatever 
 work his health would allow. May 1, 1856, he 
 entered the office of William Leverett of Plymouth 
 
4-^ 
 
 MEN OF PRO(]RESS. 
 
 as a law student, and three years later was admitted 
 to the Bar. He began the practice of his profes- 
 sion, as junior partner in the firm of Leverett & 
 Blair, and devoted himself to his labors with indus- 
 tr)' and ability. In a j-ear he was appointed Solici- 
 tor of Grafton count}-. When the war broke out he 
 endeavored to enlist in the Fifth and afterwards 
 in the Twelfth l^egiments New Hampshire Volun- 
 teers, but failed to pass the Surgeon's examination. 
 However, he succeeded in enlisting in the Fifteenth 
 Regiment as private and was chosen Captain of 
 Company B. He was commissioned Major by 
 Governor ISerry. The F'ifteenth went to Louisiana, 
 where, soon after its arrival, the disability of the 
 
 HF.NKV W. HI, AIR. 
 
 superior officers, left Major filair in command of 
 the regiment which became known as " The Fight- 
 ing Nine Months' Men." In the assault upon Port 
 Hudson, he was severely wounded in the right arm, 
 and was carried to the hospital, but when he learned 
 a few days later that another attack was to be made, 
 he insisted on disregarding the commands of the 
 Surgeon, rejoined his command, and led the men. 
 Here he w-as again wounded in the same arm by 
 a bullet which tore open the ojd wound, but he 
 remained with his men until he led them from the 
 field. He was jsromoted to Lieutenant-Colonel 
 shortly before the siege of Port Hudson com- 
 menced, and brought home his regiment when his 
 
 term expired. His health was most precarious 
 when he returned to New Hampshire and so con- 
 tinued for six or seven years, but careful nursing 
 gradually restored it. He resumed the practice of 
 law at Plymouth, for several years having an office 
 alone, but in r875 he formed a partnership \¥ith 
 Alvin Burleigh, Esq., which continued until his 
 first election to the National Senate. He was a 
 member of the Legislature in 1866, and in the 
 next year was promoted to the State Senate. He 
 was elected to Congress in March, 1875, ^""^^ ^^'^^ 
 re-elected in 1877, ^ut declined a re-nomination two 
 years later, In the summer of 1879, ^^^ '^^'^^^ a can- 
 didate for the United States Senate and was strongly 
 supported by the younger men of his party, by the 
 temperance and soldier elements, and with their 
 aid he was successful. In the House of Repre- 
 sentatives he had served upon the committees upon 
 Pacific Railroads and Accounts and several special 
 committees. In the Senate of the F"orty-sixth Con- 
 gress he served upon the committees of Education, 
 Labor, Agriculture, Transportation, Routes to the 
 Seaboard, Election Frauds, Pensions, and Exodus 
 of the Colored People. In the succeeding Con- 
 gress he was Chairman of the Senate Committee 
 on Education and Labor, and a member of those 
 on Pensions, Public Lands, Agriculture, and 
 Woman Suffrage. He was re-elected to the Senate 
 in 1885. Mr. Blair is the author of several impor- 
 tant measures, and in his speeches has discussed 
 the financial, tariff and other leading questions 
 pending during his public life. He was a vig- 
 orous advocate of Woman's Suffrage, of indus- 
 trial, pension, and temperance legislation and of 
 national aid to the common schools of the 
 South. Senator pjlair was defeated for a third 
 term, after which he was appointed Minister to 
 China, but was rejected by the imperial government 
 on account of his active opposition to Chinese 
 immigration to this country. In 1892, he was 
 elected to Congiess from the First New Hampshire 
 District. In 1895, he retired to private life. His 
 home is in Manchester, and he devotes him- 
 self to literary work and the practice of the law, a 
 part of the time in Washington, District of Col- 
 umbia. He married Eliza Nelson, daughter of a 
 Methodist clergyman of (Jrafton county. They 
 have one son, Henry Patterson Blair. 
 
 BARTLETT, Fremont Dayton, Superin- 
 tendent of the Berlin Mills, was born in Bethel, 
 Maine, April 30, J856, son of Elias S. and Hester 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 43 
 
 A. (Bartlett) Bartlett. He numbers among his 
 ancestors the Bartletts of Colonial and Revolu- 
 tionary fame ; his great-grandfather, Josiah Bartlett, 
 was one of the signers of the Declaration of Inde- 
 pendence. He received his education in the com- 
 mon schools and at Gould Academy in his native 
 town. In 1 87 4 he obtained a position as marker 
 in the Berlin Mills Compan}-, and when not em- 
 ployed as such, attended school in the fall and 
 spring, and taught in the winter, ]5y strict atten- 
 tion to the duties of his position and by means of 
 the unusual executive ability, always a prominent 
 characteristic of Mr. Bartlett, he rose by rapid 
 steps from marker to surveyor, from surveyor to 
 
 FREilONT II. HARTLETT. 
 
 yard-foreman, and finally to the important position 
 of Superintendent of the great plant. He is a 
 Director and Vice-President of the Berlin Building 
 and Loan Association. He was Selectman of 
 Berlin for two terms, during one of which he 
 served as Chairman ; was Tax Collector one year, 
 and in iSSc; was made a member of the Board of 
 Education, serving in this capacity for eleven 
 years. During this time there have been many 
 improvements made and advanced steps taken in 
 the dissemination of common school education, and 
 much of the excellence of the present sy.stem is due 
 to Mr. Bartlett's individual efforts. He has been a 
 pioneer in this work, and one whose efforts have 
 
 been most successful. He received the appoint- 
 ment of Justice of the Police Court, June 24, 1894, 
 from Go\'ernor Smith, but resigned upon his pro- 
 motion to his present position. He is a member of 
 Mt. y\.bram Dodge No. 31, Independent Order of 
 Odd Fellows, Bethel, Maine; a Past Chancellor 
 Commander of Co(is Lodge No. 25, Knights of 
 Pythias, Berlin ; Past Master of Sabatus Lodge, 
 No. 95, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, 
 Berlin ; and a member of North Star Chapter and 
 Commandery of Lancaster, and has always taken 
 an active interest in all the affairs of these orders. 
 In politics, Mr, Bartlett is a Republican. Mr. 
 Bartlett was married September 12, 1880, to Veil 
 M. Brown. They have three children : Leon 
 Oscar, Harry Elharam, and Nellie Evelyn Bartlett. 
 
 BOND, Georce Sumner, Manufacturer of Musi- 
 cal Instrument Cases and Banker, Charlestown, 
 was born in that place, March 2, 1S37, son of Silas 
 and Alice (Abbott) Bond. He is of English de- 
 scent, his great-grandfather having migrated from 
 England and settled in \^'atertown, Massachusetts, 
 where his son, William Bond, grandfather of the 
 subject of this sketch, was the first representa- 
 ti\'e of the family name born in this country. Wil- 
 liam Bond inhaled with his fir.st breath patriotism 
 and love of country and at the age of eighteen 
 entered the army of the Revolution. He was at 
 the first bloodshed at Lexington, and participated 
 in the Battle of Bunker Hill, stories of which 
 stormy period in the history of the country he 
 lived to recount to his children's children, prior to 
 his death at the honored age of ninety-four. The 
 record of the family of George Sumner Bond in 
 Charlestown, New Hampshire, dates from 176c;, 
 and its various members have since resided there in 
 the near neighborhood of the first settlement. The 
 early education of George S. Bond was obtained in 
 the common schools of Charlestown, but from boy- 
 hood he has been gifted with a taste for literary 
 pursuits, and has been a constant student and 
 close observer of men as well as of books. Upon 
 attaining his majority, he served an apprenticeship 
 of two years in acquiring the trade of tinsmith, 
 and in 1861 engaged in that business in the town 
 of Putney, Vermont. In three years he returned 
 to Charlestown, and purchased the business of his 
 former employer, carrying it on successfully for 
 seventeen years, and giving it up to accept the posi- 
 tion of Superintendent of the Pargetized Can Com- 
 pany, then establishing its business in his native 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 town. After a year he resigned the position, again present e.\cellent standing of the institution, in 
 to engage in business for himself, buying a plant spite of its ha\-ing encountered one of the most 
 for the manufacture of musical instrument cases, trying financial periods of the century, being cred- 
 which had been unsuccessful under previous man- ited largely to his integrity, firmness, and sound 
 agement, but into which he infused new life, build- common sense. His fine executive and adminis- 
 _ trati\e abilitv won due recognition from the Ameri- 
 
 can Bankers' Association in his election as Vice- 
 President of the Association for New Hampshire 
 at the annual meeting of that body in St. Louis in 
 1S96, followed by his re-election at the Detroit 
 meeting of the council the following year. Mr. 
 Bond is a Mason, and for eight years served as 
 Master of Faithful Lodge, Free and Accepted 
 Masons, No. 12, in Charlestown. He married 
 October 9, iSGo, ALrry A., only daughter of the 
 late ^^'arren and ]\Liry A. (Osgood) \\'a)'. Their 
 only son, Herbert \\'arren, is Cashier of the Con- 
 necticut River National f'ank of Charlestown. 
 
 BOND, Herkert \\'.\rren. Banker, Charles- 
 town, was born in that town Jul}- 30, 1861, son of 
 George Sumner and Mary Maria (Way) Bond. 
 He is descended from the Bond family of Water- 
 
 (;eor(;e s. bonij. 
 
 ing it up steadily to its present fine proportions as 
 the largest manufacturing establishment of its kind 
 in the world. Mr. Bond has not allowed himself to 
 become absorbed in his business successes to the 
 exclusion of everything else, and his influence has 
 been felt in man\- efforts for public advancement. 
 He has given much attention to schools, and has 
 served on the Board of Education, and as a Trustee 
 of the Silsby Free Library since its opening. He 
 is liberal in thought, public spirited and an earnest 
 advocate of progress along educational, social, and 
 political lines. In politics, Mr. Bond is an active 
 Republican and has been a hard worker for his 
 party and influential in its councils. He was a 
 member of the State Constitutional Con\ention in 
 1889, and served with distinction on se\eral of its 
 important committees. Li 1876, he became inter- 
 ested in banking as one of the fioard of Trustees 
 and member of the Finance Committee of the Con- 
 necticut Ri\-er Savings Bank; in 1891, he was 
 
 
 HERr.ERT W. I;(JN1). 
 
 town, Massachusetts, being in the sixth generation 
 of the family. On the maternal side he traces his 
 chosen a Director of the Connecticut River Na- descent from the ^\'ays of Newport, New Hamp- 
 tional Bank, and in 1896 was elected President, shire, who were among t"lie early settlers of that 
 which responsible position he now holds, the town. He attended the Vermont Episcopal Insti- 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 45 
 
 tute at Burlington, being graduated in i8So, and liar, April 27, 1868. From 1870 to 1878 he prac- 
 two years later became a clerk in the Connecticut ticed law in Manchester, as a partner of the Hon. 
 
 River National Bank of Charlestown. He was 
 promoted to Assistant Cashier in 1893, and in 
 1895 was made Cashier, which position he now 
 holds. Since 1885 he has been Town Clerk. He 
 is Treasurer of the Diocese of New Hampshire, a 
 Notar}' Public and Justice of the Peace. Mr. 
 Bond is a member of the Lambs' Club of New 
 York city; of Faithful Lodge, No. 12, Ancient 
 Free and Accepted Masons, Charlestown, being- 
 Junior Warden from 1896-97 ; of \\'ebb Chapter 
 No. 6, Royal Arch Masons, Claremont ; Columbian 
 Council Royal and Select Masters, and Sullivan 
 Commandery, both at Claremont ; V.. A. Ra}-- 
 mond Consistor)-, Thirt)--second degree of Masonry, 
 Nashua, as well as Aleppo Temple, Ancient Arabic 
 Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of Boston. He 
 married, February 17, 1S92, Susie R. F)ickinson. 
 
 15URNHAM, Henry Ep.en, Ex-Judge of Pro- 
 bate, Manchester, was born in Dunbarton, New 
 Hampshire, November 8, 1844, son of Henry L. 
 and Maria A. (Bailey) Burnham. (Jn the paternal 
 side he is of P^nglish stock, being descended in 
 the eighth generation from John Burnham, who 
 emigrated from England in 1635. and settled in 
 Chebacco (fpswich), Massachusetts. There Sam- 
 uel Burnham, great-grandfather of the subject of 
 this sketch, was born, who removed to Dunbarton 
 in 1770. FJradford, son of Samuel, was born in 
 Dunbarton in 17S7, and died there in 1865; and 
 there, too, his son, Henry L., was born in 1814. 
 Judge Burnham's ancestors in the direct line were 
 farmers, but among his collateral kindred are 
 found the Rev. Abraham Jjurnham of Pembroke, 
 and the Rev. Amos Burnham of Rindge ; and he 
 is related on his father's side to Nathan Dane, a 
 delegate to the Continental Congress in 1787, and 
 the author of the famous ordinance of that date, 
 for the government of the vast territory north and 
 west of the Ohio, which contained the provision 
 " that there shall be neither slavery nor involun- 
 tary servitude in the said territory.' Henry E. 
 PSurnham attended the common schools and High 
 School of Dunbarton, Kimball Union Academy at 
 Meriden, and Dartmouth College, from which he 
 was graduated in 1865. He studied law at Man- 
 chester in the office of Edward S. Cutter and the 
 Hon. Lewis W. Clark and in Concord in the office 
 of Minot & Mugridge. He was admitted to the 
 
 David Cross, under the firm name of Cross &: 
 Burnham. He was a partner of George I. McAl- 
 li.ster, from April i, 1881, to January i, 1884, 
 
 HENRY E. BURNH.V.M. 
 
 under the firm name of Burnham & McAllister. 
 In September, 1SS4, with Albert O. Brown, he 
 formed the law firm of Burnham & Brown, to 
 which George H. \^'arren was admitted in Septem- 
 ber, 1890. This firm is now in practice under the 
 name of Burnham, lirown & Warren. Mr. fJurn- 
 ham was a member of the New Hampshire House 
 of I^epresentatives in 1873-^74, and of the State 
 Constitutional Con\'ention of 1889. He has been 
 Ballot Law Commissioner since 1893 ; Treasurer of 
 Hillsborough county in i875-'77; Judge of Pro- 
 bate of Hillsborough county from July 25, 1876, 
 until his resignation in June, 1879; Chairman of 
 the Republican State Convention to nominate dele- 
 gates to the National Con\-ention in 1888; Major, 
 commanding the Amoskeag A'eterans, i892-'n4. 
 He has been Noble (irand of Wildey Lodge, and 
 Chief Patriarch of Mount Washington Encamp- 
 ment, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He 
 was \\'orshipful Master of Washington Lodge, 
 Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, in 1S76 and 
 1877 ; Most Worshipful Grand Master of Masons 
 in New Hampshire in 1885 ; and has received the 
 
46 
 
 MEN ()F PROGRESS. 
 
 Thirty-second degree in Scottisii Rite Masonr)-. 
 He is a member of tlie Derryfield Club. From 
 his college days Judge ISurnham has been noted 
 among his fellows as an orator of rare power and 
 charm. At his graduation he was selected to di.s- 
 cuss in public debate, the Monroe Doctrine, with 
 Horace Russell, since a Judge of the courts of 
 New "\'ork; and in later days he has delivered 
 many addresses of note, among them the oration 
 at the dedication of Masonic Hall in Manchester, 
 October 15, iSgo; a stirring address on JSunker 
 Hill day, as Commander of the Amoskeag Vet- 
 erans, at the banquet gi\-en by the Worcester Con- 
 tinentals to the Veterans and the Putnam Phalanx, 
 and the eloquent oration at the Semi-Centennial 
 in !\fanchester, September 8, 1896. As an ad\'0- 
 cate before a jury he has but few equals, and from 
 its beginning his practice has been large and lucra- 
 tive. In politics he has alwa\s been a l-lepublican. 
 Judge Bumham married, ( )ctober 22, 1874, Eliza- 
 beth H. Patterson. His children are: Gertrude 
 Elizabeth, Alice Patterson, and Edith Duncan 
 Kurnham. 
 
 CHAMBERLIN, Rohkrt N., Lawyer, Berlin, 
 was born in Bangor, New York, July 24, 1856, 
 son of Antoine and Electa B. (Sears) Chamber- 
 lin. His grandfather, Francois Chamberlin, born 
 near Paris, France, came to Canada, where he 
 was in the British seivice as a mariner in the 
 War of 1812. His son, Antoine. who was born in 
 Nicollet, Province of (Quebec, and followed his 
 trade of shoemaker in Sherbrooke, l^rovince of 
 Quebec, Malone and Bangor, Franklin county. 
 New York, settled in West Stewartstown, New 
 Hampshire, in 1859. In this town, the subject of 
 this sketch attended the public schools a few weeks 
 each year, most of his time from his eighth to si.x- 
 teenth year being devoted to the task of self sup- 
 port. Later he attended the academies at Cole- 
 brook and Derby, Vermont. In i877-'78 he read 
 law with (j. W. Hartshorn of Canaan, Vermont ; 
 was admitted to the Piar in Vermont, March, 1881, 
 and formed a partnership with Mr. Hartshorn, 
 which continued for two years. In July, 1881, he 
 mo\'ed to Berlin, and in March, 1883, was admitted 
 to the New Hampshire Bar, and being the hi-st 
 lawyer to settle in the town of Berlin which was 
 then developing rapidly. Mr. Chamberlin is a 
 lawyer of great ability and has taken a prominent 
 place in the profession in the state. He has served 
 as Superintendent of Schools, as Selectman, and as 
 
 a member of the Board of Education. He is active 
 in the Masonic order. In 1889, he was a member 
 of the State Legislature, and was re-elected in 1892, 
 and chosen Speaker of the House. During both 
 of his terms, he made a brilliant record. In poli- 
 
 ^OlIliRI' X. CH.\MI1KRI.I\. 
 
 tics Mr. Chamberlin is a strong Republican. He 
 nrarried No\ember 2, 1882, Maria H., daughter of 
 Ira and Ann |. (Howard) Mason of Berlin. They 
 have one son : Lafayette Ray Chamberlin. 
 
 COGS\\'ELL, John Rdks, Physician, \\'arner, was 
 born at Landaff, New Hampshire, April 18, 1840, 
 son of George W. and Harriet (Taylor) Cogswell. 
 On the paternal side he is descended in the eighth 
 generation from Sir John Cogswell, who came from 
 England in 1635 and settled in Essex, Massachu- 
 setts. His great-grandfather, John Cogswell, was 
 one of eight brothers who served in the Revolu- 
 tionary \^'ar. It is worthy of note that the eight 
 together ga\'e thirty-eight years to the service of 
 their coimtry in this war, which is said to be the 
 longest period to the credit of any one family in 
 the United States. Timothy Taylor, the maternal 
 grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was one 
 of the tirst settlers of Lisbon, and his wife was a 
 member of the well-known Lovell family of Wor- 
 cester, Massachusetts. John R. Cogswell attended 
 the district schools of his native town, and was 
 
MEN OF PROCRESS. 
 
 47 
 
 graduated from the New Hampton Literar}' Insti- 
 tution in 1859. He studied one year in college, 
 but poor health, resulting from over study, forced 
 him to give up the rest of his collegiate course. 
 For two years he taught in high schools and acad- 
 emies in New Hampshire and Vermont, and then 
 began the study of medicine in 1861, being gradu- 
 ated from Dartmouth in 1864. He practiced medi- 
 cine and surgery for tive years at Franconia, and 
 then took a post-graduate course at Harvard Medi- 
 cal School. He then returned to Franconia and 
 practiced five years, or until November, 1874, when 
 he removed to ^^'arner, where he has been in active 
 practice until the present time. In all he has seen 
 over thirty-three years of active country practice in 
 towns where his professional calls have frequently 
 involved long and tedious journeys. Dr. Cogswell 
 figures it out that he drives from five to eight thou- 
 sand miles yearly. It is his belief, however, that 
 in spite of this apparent hardship, the country phy- 
 sician's life has its compensations in the splendid 
 air, and magnificent scener)-, and in the develop- 
 ment of self-reliance to a greater degree than some- 
 times is the case with the cit}' practitioner. He 
 often has to be druggist as well as physician, and 
 thus gains added knowledge and strength. Dr. 
 Cogswell's experience has been large, but he has 
 devoted especial attention to the treatment of dis- 
 eases of women and children, and has won a high 
 reputation for his success in the treatment of pneu- 
 monia. He ranks high among his professional 
 brethren for integrity and professional court- 
 esy, and for the most careful avoidance of 
 questionable practices. He served as Selectman 
 of Franconia for two years and was Collector of 
 Taxes in 1873 ; Superintendent of Schools for 
 three years ; Town Superintendent of Schools in 
 Warner from 1880 to 1883 ; Superintending Com- 
 mittee of Simonds Free High School in Warner in 
 i896-'99. He has been one of tlie Trustees of the 
 Pillsbury Free Library; Secretary of the White 
 Mountain Medical Society ; President of the Centre 
 District Medical Society ; and lias been honored 
 with elections as delegate to the American Medical 
 Association and Vermont State Medical Society. 
 He is a Democrat in pohtics, and in i894-'96 
 received the party nomination for State Senator, but 
 failed of election, the district being strongly Repub- 
 lican. Dr. Cogswell has been a Mason for over 
 thirty-four years and now belongs to Harris Lodge 
 of Warner, Franklin Chapter, Lisbon, and St. 
 Gerard Commandery, Knights Templar, Littleton. 
 
 He has been Ma.ster of Harris Lodge, representa- 
 tive to the C.rand Lodge, etc., etc. Fie joined the 
 Odd Fellows some over twenty years ago, has 
 received all the honors of the Order, and is now 
 a member of Central Lodge, No. 67, ^^'arner, and 
 \\'elcome Rebekah Lodge, No. 18. He has been 
 a member of Warner Grange twent)' )'ears, has 
 held various offices in it, and is at present its 
 Worthy Master. He has been Grange Director for 
 the State Grange Fair at Tilton, and President and 
 Secretary of the Merrimack County Grange Fair 
 at Warner. P'or several years he was Director in 
 the Merrimack Glove Company at Warner. Be- 
 sides his professional work he has devoted some 
 time to dealings in real estate and building of 
 houses and shops, and has been foremost in any 
 enterprise in the to«-n in which he lix'ed. He is a 
 strictly temperate man, never indulging in the use 
 of liquor, tobacco, coffee, or profanit}-. He has 
 held the highest offices in the Sons of Temperance, 
 Good Templars, and United Order of the (iolden 
 Cross. Dr. Cogswell is a ready writer and a poet 
 of considerable local reputation, having alwaj^s 
 
 JOHN R. COKSWELI.. 
 
 been called upon to furnish a poem for all impor- 
 tant local events, anniversaries, silver weddings, 
 Grange and Masonic celebrations and the like. His 
 ready wit and ability for extemporaneous speech 
 have caused him to be called the " poet and orator " 
 
48 
 
 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 of his town. He is ;i regular attendant at church 
 and for ten years was a member of the choir. He 
 is a believer in the Fatherhood of God and the 
 Brotherhood of Man, and that a man's works live 
 after him ; that one should live not for the present 
 alone, but that his influence ma}' go on doing good 
 after he has gone from earth and earthly things. 
 Dr. Cogswell married June 9, 1S67, Mary Ella 
 Knight, of Franconia, who died September 14, 
 1S69, leaving one son, Edward K. Cogswell, born 
 August 30, 1S69. Dr. Cogswell married Septem- 
 ber 18, 1872, Catherine Ellen Hildreth of Lisbon, 
 by whom he had one son, Uoyd Hildreth Cogswell, 
 born December 7, 1S79. lull's. Cogswell has long 
 been a member of the Rebekah Lodge, was chosen 
 Noble Grand early in its history ; has been an 
 active member of the Woman's Christian Temper- 
 ance L^nion. and United Order of the Golden 
 Cross, and is a member of the Congregational 
 church in \\'arner. Edward K. Cogswell is now a 
 successful merchant of Henniker. He married 
 Carrie E. P'olsom, only daughter of \Vm. O. Fol- 
 soni, a prominent citizen of Henniker. Lloyd Hil- 
 dreth Cogswell is studying medicine at ]!ellevue 
 Hospital Medical College, New York city ; has 
 successfully passed his examinations for the first 
 year, and takes a high rank in his studies. Both 
 sons, E. K. and I^. H., are graduates of Simonds 
 Free High School, \\'arner, and each took post 
 graduate studies. Floth are members of the 
 Grange, and E. Iv., being of sufficient age, has be- 
 come a member of the Knights of Pythias and the 
 Free and Accepted Masons. He and his wife are 
 doing some literary work, at present being local 
 editors of the Henniker Courier. Dr. Cogswell is, 
 and well may be, proud of his famil)', both as to 
 their intellectual ability and moral and social stand- 
 
 COLBY, Frkderick Mvron, Journalist and 
 Author, Warner, was born in that town, f )eceniber 
 9, 1848, son of Ijcvi Osgood Colby and Mary (Dur- 
 rell) Colby. He is descended from Thomas Colby, 
 fourth son of Anthony Colby, the progenitor of all 
 the Colbys of America and himself a descendant 
 of Sir Robert de Colebi, one of the Ivnights of 
 f^ichard the Lion Heart of England. He attended 
 the common schools of Warner, a commercial col- 
 lege at Concord, and a select school. He was for 
 six years a member of the School Board of Warner 
 (iS78-'8i and iS86-'S9) ; Town Treasurer in 1885, 
 1886, 1887, and 1896; and in 1894 was appointed 
 
 Postmaster. He has been a member of the State 
 Democratic committee for six years. He married, 
 December 25, 1882, H. Maria George of Warner. 
 He is well known to magazine readers for his con- 
 tributions in prose and verse. Two books of his, 
 
 FRKD. JIYRON COLHY. 
 
 "The Daughter of l^haraoh," and "Brave Lads 
 and fionnie Lassies," published by the Methodist 
 I3ook Concern of New York, have had large sales. 
 Another book, " Boy Kings and Girl Queens, Their 
 Reigns and Their Achievements," is in the hands 
 of his publishers. 
 
 DALEY, Danikl James, Lawyer, Berlin, was 
 born in Lancaster, New Hampshire, January 27, 
 1858, son of John and Bridget (Daugherty) Daley. 
 He attended the common schools of his native 
 town, and subsequently had the advantage of an 
 academical training. At the age of sixteen he 
 began teaching school, thus occupying himself in 
 the winters and working on the farm in the sum- 
 mer, applying his earnings toward gaining an edu- 
 cation. At the age of twenty-two he began the 
 study of law, entering the office of William and 
 Henry Heywood, and pursuing his legal studies 
 under their direction until March, 1885, when he 
 was admitted to the Bar. November 9, 1885, he 
 established himself at l^erlin, practising law alone 
 until February 1, 1891, when he formed a partner- 
 
MEN OF PROGRKSS. 
 
 49 
 
 ship with Herbert I. (k)s.s, which continued until 
 September 15, 1892, when Kdwin C Niles, son of 
 the Right Reverend ^^■. W. Niles, Rishop of New 
 Hampshire, was admitted to the firm, which 
 became Daley, Goss & Niles. Mr. Niles retired 
 from the firm November 26, 1894, and the business 
 has since been conducted under the lirni name of 
 Daley & Goss, who have a very large clientage. 
 In 1S82, Mr. Daley was a member of the fjoard of 
 Supervisors of Lancaster, and in 1883 was Chair- 
 man of this ]!oard. He did telling ser\'ice for his 
 party on the stump in i883-'84 and i887-'88. In 
 i886-'87, he served as Town Treasurer of Berlin, 
 and subsequently served se\'eral years as Mod- 
 erator. In 1S88 he was nominated for County 
 Solicitor for Coos count)-, and was elected by a 
 large majority. Was nominated to succeed himself 
 in 1890, and elected by a majority of seven hundred 
 and fifty-one, running largeU* ahead of his ticket. 
 Owing to the press of other business, he declined 
 the re-nomination in 1S92. In politics Mr. Daley 
 is a Democrat. He has been prominent in the 
 upbuilding of ]!erlin, and is now President of the 
 
 DANIEL J, DALEY. 
 
 People's Building and Loan Association, a position 
 he has held since the organization of the associa- 
 tion six years ago. He is a Director and Presi- 
 dent of the Berlin Heights Addition Land Com- 
 pany, and President and Director of the Berlin 
 
 Water Company. He is Director and legal advisor 
 of the Berlin Street Railway, now being organized, 
 and also a Director of the Northern Electric Com- 
 pany of Auburn, Maine. To the energy and per- 
 severance of Mr. Daley is due the construction and 
 eciuipment in Berlin, in 1896, of one of the largest 
 shoe factory plants in New England, and the loca- 
 tion therein of Chick Jirothers of Haverhill, Massa- 
 chusetts, a very successful manufacturing firm. 
 He is a member of the Maynesboro Club of ]5erlin. 
 Mr. Daley married. May 8, 1886, Ardell A. Cowan 
 of Lancaster, and has one child: Helen J. Daley. 
 
 DORT, ()nEji (iiLMAN, lianker, Keene, was 
 born in Surry, New Hampshire, January 25, 1828, 
 son of Eliphalet and Lois (IJemis) Dort. He is 
 descended from Richard Dort, or Dart, as the 
 name was then spelled, who came from England in 
 1633, settled in Connecticut, and founded a family 
 whose menrbers ha\e filled most useful positions 
 in the community. The subject of this sketch 
 attended the conuuon schools and academy in 
 Keene. He left home at fifteen, and learned the 
 trade of carriage and sign painter, and at the age 
 of twenty-two began business in Keene, dealing in 
 drugs, paints, and paper hangings. He continued 
 in this business as druggist until 1875. ^^^ ^^'^s 
 active in the organization of the Keene Five-cent 
 Savings ISank in 1869, and was its Treasurer until 
 1875, "'hen he resigned and accepted the Cashier- 
 ship of the Citizens' National Bank, in the organ- 
 ization of which he has taken an acti\'e part. In 
 1S78 he was elected President of the bank, and 
 has held the office ever since. He was also prom- 
 inent in establishing the Keene Guaranty Savings 
 ISank, and was Treasurer of that institution until 
 1892. In his younger years he was a member of 
 the Keene Light Infantry, and held a commission 
 as Lieutenant when the old military system was 
 abolished. When the Rebellion broke out, Mr. 
 Dort took a heartfelt interest in the safety of the 
 Union, and in the fall of 1861, enlisting a company 
 of three years' men, was commissioned Captain of 
 Company E, Sixth Regiment, New Hampshire 
 X'olunteers, afterwards being promoted to Major. 
 The regiment was assigned to the Ninth Army 
 Corps under General Burnside. The regiment 
 accompanied the famous Burnside expedition to 
 North Carolina, which suffered severely in the 
 great storm off Hatteras. In the summer of 
 1862 it was ordered to aid General McClellan, 
 and upon the arrival at Fortress Monroe en- 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 camped ;it Newport News. At this time Major 
 Dort's wife and son Arthur, aged six ^-ears. 
 in company with the wives of Colonel Scott 
 and Oaptain Cummings visited the camp. The 
 regiment was suddenly ordered away and the ladies 
 started for home, taking the steamer ^^'est Point for 
 Washington. On the trip up the Potomac on the 
 evening of August 13th, the ^^'est Point collided 
 with the steamer George Peabody, and almost imme- 
 diately sank. Major Dort's wife and son, with both 
 the other ladies losing their li\'es in this terrible dis- 
 aster. Among other victims were many wounded 
 and sick soldiers. \\'hen the collision occurred the 
 Captain attempted to beach the boat but was unsuc- 
 cessful. Colonel Scott and I^r. Newell of a Penn- 
 sylvania regiment directed their energies to saving 
 the ladies, but as soon as a boat was lowered fran- 
 tic men leaped in in such numbers that boat after 
 boat went down until all were carried away. Then 
 Colonel Scott and Dr. Newell lifted the ladies upon 
 the hurricane deck and supported them until the 
 water was above their waists. In this moment of 
 agony and despair Colonel Scott saw a capsized 
 
 caught an iron rod which liraced the smoke stack, 
 to which he clung until he was rescued. Dr. New- 
 ell, the ladies, and the child were swept away and 
 lost their lives in the flood. When Major Dort 
 enlisted in the service he had left a well-organized 
 business in the charge of his wife, but after this 
 terrible disaster on the Potomac, with no one to 
 whom he could entrust the business while he 
 remained at the front, and with the care of his one 
 surviving child, left motherless at the age of four 
 vears, he felt it his duty to leave the service. 
 Therefore, in the fall of 1862, he regretfully resigned 
 his commission. 'I'o lea^e the service from no 
 bodily disabilitv, when e\'ery surrounding was sat- 
 isfactory and the country was in need of every 
 man's aid, might seem unjustifiable to the superfi- 
 cial obser\-er who stayed at home to make monev, 
 but he has considered that perliaps it will be agreed 
 that one year's ser\ice is better than none at all. 
 While Major Dort was at the front with his regi- 
 ment he participated in the battle of Elizabeth City, 
 Camden, North Carolina, Second Bull I'lun, Chan- 
 tilly, South Mountain, and Antietam. In his 
 younger daj's Major Dort was acti\'e in the clubs 
 and societies, a Mason and an Odd Fellow, but of 
 later years he has regarded his own home as the 
 best club house, lie was for many j'ears Vestry- 
 man and Warden in St. James's Episcopal Church. 
 In politics he has always been a Democrat, believ- 
 ing the end and aim of government should be the 
 greatest good for the greatest number. He has 
 held \er\' few political offices, for in Keene the tide 
 is very strongly Republican. In October, 1851, he 
 was married to Julia N. Wakefield, daughter of 
 James Wakefield of Marlborough. Of the children 
 born of this marriage, Arthur \\'akefield, born 
 Februar\- 25, 1856, perished with his mother in the 
 sad disaster to the \\'est Point ; Frank Gilman, born 
 December 17, 1857, now li\'es in Keene; Mary 
 Ellen Dort, born February 15, 1861 , died November 
 27 of the same 3'ear. ( )n December 17, 1863, 
 Major Dort was married to Sarah Jane, daughter of 
 Go\'ernor \\'illiam Haile of Hinsdale. 
 
 CUTLER, Gkorck iNincRsoi.i,, Physician, West 
 OBEX) c. ixjRT. Swanzey, was born in Keene. New Hampshire, 
 
 December 10, 1833, son of Gardner C. and Olive 
 boat drifting by and swam towards it with the hope H. ("Watts) Cutler. On the paternal side, he 
 of rescuing the ladies. The boat drifted by him traces his descent from James Cutler, who came to 
 and at the same time the steamer's deck gave way, this country and settled in Watertown, Massachu- 
 and all upon it were thrown into the water. He setts, in 1634. Dr. Cutler's father was a farmer 
 endea\ored to return to the wreck, and finally and was born in Hinsdale in 1807. The son 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 SI 
 
 attended schools iu Keenc and Chaiicstown, New 
 Hampshire, and Alstead and Jliattleboro, \'erniont. 
 1' or ten years before taking- up his profession he 
 was a teacher. He was graduated from the Medi- 
 cal Department of the University of Vermont in 
 
 public schools of Concord and was graduated from 
 the High School. His hrst employment was in the 
 freight office of the Concord Railroad as clerk; 
 then for se\-eral )'ears he was a clerk in the Eirst 
 National iJank, a position he left to become book- 
 keeper for E. El. Rollins & Son, ln\'estment bank- 
 ers, subsecjuently becoming a partner, and Treas- 
 urer of the company upon its incorporation under 
 the old firm name. He was elected Cashier and 
 Clerk of the Board of Directors of the Mechanicks 
 National Rank in January, 1894. He is now serv- 
 ing as Treasurer of a number of societies and cor- 
 porations, being Treasurer and Director of the 
 lieecher Falls Company, manufacturers of furniture 
 and hardwood flooring; of La Concordia Cam- 
 pania, a company formed to grow coffee in Mexico ; 
 of St. Paul's Parish, Concord ; of the Guild of St. 
 Paul's; of the ISoard of Managers of Diocesan 
 Missions for New Hampshire ; of the Prayer Book 
 Distribution Committee; and of the Home Realty 
 Company, a corporation ha\-ing thirty thousand 
 dollars invested in real estate in Concord. He is a 
 Director of the Young Men's Christian Association, 
 
 GEO. I. CUTLER. 
 
 1S64, and soon after began practice in West Swan- 
 zey, where he has since remained. He has been 
 Town Clerk for thirty-two years, and has served 
 on the ISoard of Education e\ery year but one 
 during his residence in the town. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Cheshire Ctjunty Medical Society, of 
 which he has been President, and of the State and 
 Connecticut R.iver Medical societies. He is a 
 Mason and a member of the Lodge of Social 
 Friends, Keene. For eight years he has been a 
 member of the ISoard of Pension E.xaminers. In 
 politics, he is a Democrat, but has never taken an 
 active part, nor sought office. 1 )r. Cutler was mar- 
 ried, February 14, 1S66, to 1'",. Jennie Aldrich of 
 Westmoreland, New Hampshii'e. 
 
 DIIDLEY, Harry EIukhard, Banker, Concord, harry h. Dudley. 
 was born in that city, June 11, 1S59, son of Hub- 
 bard Thomas and Antoinette (Gordon) Dudley. and of the Profile i\: Eranconia Notch Railroad 
 He belongs to the Governor Thomas Dudley Company, as well as Director in 1'^ H. Rollins eV- 
 family, being a lineal descendant in the eighth Sons (incorporated bankers. Milk street, ISoston). 
 generation from the Elder Governor of the Massa- He is a Vestryman of St. Paul's Church of Concord ; 
 c^lusetts Puritan ('ommonwealth. He attended the Second Vice-President and Director of the Wono- 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 lancet Club ; a Director of the Passaconaway Out- 
 ing Club, and a member of the Snow Shoe Club, all 
 of Concord. Mr. Dudle)- married October 30, 
 18S3, Anne Eartlett INfinot, daughter of the late 
 Charles Minot, of the banking firm of Minot & 
 Company, which firm was dissolved about 1S80, 
 when the Mechanicks Bank was chartered. He has 
 three children: Dorothea Minot, Charles Hubbard, 
 and Thomas Minot Dudley. 
 
 EASTMAN, KnwiN Ci.am.^c.f.. Attorney-General 
 of New Hampshire. Exeter, was born in Grantham, 
 November 22, 1S47, son of \\'illiam Henry and 
 Paulina (Winter) Kastman. He was educated in 
 the common schools of the town, at Kimball Union 
 Academy, and at Dartmouth College, from which he 
 was graduated in the class of 1874. He studied 
 law in the oflice of Judge A. P, Carpenter at Pjath, 
 and was admitted to the Bar in 1S76. In Septem- 
 ber of that year he began the practice of his profes- 
 sion in Exeter, becoming the partner of the late 
 General Gihnan Marston. In 1876 he was Repre- 
 sentative from the town of Grantham in the lower 
 
 EinVIN C. EAS'I'MAN. 
 
 branch of the State Legislature, and in 1889 was a 
 member of the State Senate. He was County So- 
 licitor of Rockingham county from 18S3 to 1888. 
 Upon the death of the Hon. Daniel Barnard in 
 1892, Mr. Eastman was appointed Attorney-General 
 
 of the state, and this position he still holds. He 
 has earned for himself a leading position at the Bar 
 of the state, having served in many important and 
 famous cases, again and again proving his ability to 
 deal with weighty legal questions. In his legisla- 
 tive service he occupied a prominent position and 
 has always given strong support to the best inter- 
 ests of the community in which he lives. 
 
 EMERSON, Chari.es Franklin, Appleton Pro- 
 fessor of Natural Philosophy and Dean of the Fac- 
 ulty, Dartmouth College, Hanover, was born in 
 Chelmsford, Massachusetts, September 28, 1843, 
 son of Owen and Louisa (Butterfield) Emerson. The 
 genealogy of the Emerson family has not been fully 
 traced, but the subject of this sketch is descended 
 from the Reading, Massachusetts, branch, his father 
 being a distant cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson. 
 His maternal grandfather was Captain John Butter- 
 field. Mr. Emerson attended the district schools 
 of his native town, and also a private academy for 
 three terms. He was fitted for college at Westford 
 (Massachusetts) Academy, under John D. Long, 
 now Secretary of the Navy, and at Appleton Acad- 
 emy, under Professor E. T. Quimby. He entered 
 Dartmouth College in the class of '68, and although 
 while in college he had little spare time, yet, then as 
 now, he was very much interested in all branches of 
 athletics. He stood second at the junior exhibition, 
 giving a Greek oration. At graduation he was 
 salutatorian of his class, and it is recorded of him, 
 during his college course, that he had not a single 
 cut in college exercises until the spring term of his 
 senior year, when sickness kept him in the house 
 for a few days. Before entering college he had 
 worked on his father's farm. In 1859 h'^ hf^d full 
 clrarge of this farm of two hundred acres 
 during his father's absence. He was much in- 
 terested in farming, and took an active part 
 in Lyceums, holding offices in town and school 
 meetings, but his career was fated to lie in other 
 lines than those of a farmer. His first experience 
 in teaching was gained in the winter of i86i, and 
 he has been a teacher ever since. Immediately upon 
 graduation, he was an Instructor at Dartmouth, and 
 he has been continuously connected with the college 
 since. He was a Tutor in Mathematics until 1872, 
 when he was appointed Associate Professor of Nat- 
 ural Philosophy and Mathematics. He was made 
 Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and In- 
 structor in Astronomy in 1878, on the withdrawal 
 of Professor C. A. Young to Princeton College : 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 53 
 
 he carried on the work of the two chairs of Physics tember, 18S4, he was al:)road, visiting' universities 
 and Astronomy, with little assistance for liftecn in Knj^land, France, (.lerniany, and Ital)-. In col- 
 years, when in 1892, he was relieved of the Astron- lege, he was a member of the Alpha F)elta Phi 
 omy by the appointment of l-'rofessor E. P. Frost Fraternity, and also of the I^hi lieta Kappa. He 
 to that chair, and his title became Appleton I^ro- has been a fellow of the American Association for 
 
 the Advancement of Science since 18S4, and was 
 one of the original seven members who formed 
 the Dartmouth Scientific Association in 1871. 
 For several years he was a member of the Appala- 
 chian Mountain Club of ]Joston. In politics he is 
 a Republican. Professor Emerson married Janu- 
 ary 20, 1875, Caroline '""'^gj? "f Nf)rth Chelmsford, 
 Massachusetts. He has two daughters: Martha 
 Flagg" and Emily Sophia Emerson. 
 
 EVERETT, CiicoRdK Henry, Justice of the La- 
 conia Police Court, was born in Poston, Massachu- 
 setts, September 5, 1833, son of George and Sarah 
 (Elms) Everett. He is of the stock of the late 
 Edward Everett of Cambridge, Massachusetts. He 
 attended the public schools in fioston and Chester, 
 New Hampshire, and was a graduate of the firighton, 
 Massachusetts, High School. He spent several 
 
 F. FMERSIIN. 
 
 fessor of Natural Philosoph)- which he now retains. 
 In 1893, when Dr. \Vm. J. Tucker became Presi- 
 dent of the College, the office of Dean was created 
 and Professor Emerson was elected by the Trustees 
 to the office, which position he still holds ; and 
 Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy in 1892. 
 He was Instructor in Mathematics in the New 
 Hampshire College of Agriculture and Mechanic 
 Arts, i86S-'74. He heard the first recitation in 
 the Agricultural College in September, 1 868, and 
 assisted Professor Dimond in organizing the col- 
 lege and arranging schedules of recitations. His 
 life has been an active one. In Dartmouth, he 
 has ser\'ed on almost e\'ery kind of committee 
 known to the college \\orld, and has advanced 
 through all the grades of instructorship, from Tutor 
 to Dean, under three administrations, those of 
 Doctors Smith, ]5artlett, and Tucker. He is well 
 acquainted with the working of the college and 
 has an unusually large acquaintance with members 
 of the Alumni. He is popular with the students, 
 and takes a keen interest in the progress of the 
 college and town. From November, 1SS3, to Sep- 
 
 0K0R(;E II. EVERETT. 
 
 years in the grocery and provision business in Bos- 
 ton, Massachusetts, and for twelve years was a 
 traveling salesman of the house of E. S. Leonard, 
 stationers and book-binders. In 1869 he purchased 
 the VVillard Hotel, at Laconia, New Hampshire, 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 which he successfulh' managed for fifteen \ears, 
 when he con\eited it into a private residence where 
 he now resides. In 1876 he was appointed High 
 Sheriff h\ Go\ernor P. C. Chenew his term of office 
 expiring" at the end of three years. In 1S92 he was 
 appointed Associate justice of Laconia Pohce Court 
 by Go\'enior Hiram A. 'I'uttle, and in uSqs he was 
 made Chief lirstice h\ Governor Charles A. llusiel. 
 He also conducts a large and successful insurance 
 business, his principal office being Room No. 10, 
 Masonic Temple. He is a Thirty-second degree 
 Mason, and has filled all the chairs in Mt. Lebanon 
 Lodge, No. 32, Ancient Free and Accepted AFisons, 
 Union Chapter, No. 7, Royal Arch Masons, and 
 Pythagoria Council, No. 3, Ro_\al and Select ISLis- 
 ters. In politics lie has been a lifelong Republi- 
 can. In 1S72 Mr. F\erett was married to Sarah F. 
 Grav of Jackson, New Hampsh.ire. 
 
 FLDRFlXiK, Hb;M,\N Fisher, President and 
 Treasurer of the F.ldredge Ihewing Company of 
 Portsmouth, was born in Chatham, Massachusetts, 
 April 13, 1S52, son of Heman and Mary (Harding) 
 
 H. FISHKR ElaiREKCE. 
 
 Eldredge. His early education was recei\ ed in the 
 schools of Chatham and Portsmouth. He became 
 identified with the brewing industry in connection 
 with his brother, Hon. Marcellus Eldredge. This 
 industry was started in a moderate way in 185S, 
 
 and now has an annual product of one hundred 
 thousand barrels. It was organized in 1S75, as a 
 stock company, with Marcellus Eldredge, as Presi- 
 dent and Treasurer, and was continued under this 
 management until 1891, when he disposed of his 
 interest to H. Fisher P^ldredge, the present Presi- 
 dent and Treasurer, as well as proprietor. Mr. 
 P^ldredge was elected to the Legislature from his 
 ward in 18S9, and made a creditable record. He is 
 a Director of the New Hampshire National Bank of 
 Portsmouth, and of the Portsmouth Gas Light Com- 
 pany. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity 
 and other secret orders. In politics he is a Demo- 
 crat. Although he resides in Portsmouth, he has a 
 summer residence in his nati\e town of Chatham. 
 Mr. Eldredge was married April 22, 1S73, to Addie 
 Eliza Young of Chatham. They have two children : 
 Nettie E., now the wife of James F. Shaw, and 
 Sadie E\-eline Eldredire. 
 
 FRENCH, Leonard, for many years one of the 
 leading physicians of Manchester, where he died 
 February 14, 1892, was born in Bedford, New 
 Hampshire, November ii, 1S17, son of Leonard 
 C. and Nancy (Hutchinson) French. His father 
 was a prominent town officer of Bedford. The 
 son attended the common schools of his native 
 town and was fitted for college at Gilmanton Acad- 
 eni)'. He entered Dartmouth in 1S39, '•^"^^ ^''"•^^ 
 graduated in the class of 1843, among his class- 
 mates being Professor Alvah Hovey of Newton 
 Theological Seminary, Hon. Harry Bingham of 
 Littleton, and John Newton Putnam, who became 
 Professor of Greek at Daitmouth, all of whom 
 attained to great eminence. Dr. French's parents 
 were in moderate circumstances, his father being a 
 farmer, and he was obliged to teach school winters 
 in order to procure the means with which to defray 
 the expenses of his education. On leaving college he 
 taught a select school in Bedford for three months, 
 and then the Academy at Piscataquog, now known 
 as West Manchester, for four months. Deciding 
 to embrace the medical profession he studied with 
 Doctors Josiah and 'I'homas R. Crosby at Man- 
 chester, and attended lecture courses at Dartmouth. 
 He took his degree in 184G, and liegan practice in 
 his native town, but in April, 1847, entered into 
 partnership with Dr. Alfred Hitchcock in Ashby, 
 Massachusetts, where he remained three years, and 
 then removed with Dr. Hitchcock to Eitchburg, 
 Massachusetts. His stay in Eitchburg was short, 
 however, for at the expiration of three months he 
 
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 55 
 
 returned to Ashby where he did a large and most 
 prosperous business. Desirous of giving his chil- 
 dren better educational advantages than were to be 
 had at Ashby, he removed to Manchester in 1861, 
 and at once entered upon an extensi\e practice. 
 
 I.K(l.\AKM FkKNClI. 
 
 In i866-'67, he was City Physician; in 1872, 
 President of the Manchester Medical Society ; in 
 1873, '^ delegate to Dartmouth Medical College, 
 where he made the address to the graduating class. 
 Pie was also Consulting Phj-sician to the Elliot 
 Hospital, Counsellor of both the Manchester and 
 New Hampshire Medical Societies, and a Director 
 in the Amoskeag Savings Rank. Possessed of a 
 vigorous constitution that was ne^•er impaired b}- 
 excesses of any kind, he was enabled to follow his 
 calling actively late in life when many others 
 younger than he were obliged to shrink from its 
 active duties and responsibilities. It was as an 
 obstetrician that he was most wideh' known. He 
 performed all the operations incident to this de- 
 partment with signal success. He was at all times 
 kindly, patient, and genial, a friend to his patients 
 as well as a skillful physician. The influence of 
 his upright living and his Christian character did 
 not fail to make its impress upon the communities 
 wherein he resided. He was a consistent member 
 of the Hanover Street Congregational church, and 
 a Deacon in the organization until his death. In 
 
 1S4G, he married Sarah M., daughter of Henry 
 and L}-dia (Whitney) MeU'ille of Nelson, by whom 
 he had one son . Leonard Melville Prench, born 
 July 26, 1849, and at present a prominent physician 
 of Manchester. His wife d)ing in 1849, he mar- 
 ried her sister, x\nn Maria, in 1850, ha\ing by her 
 one son : Henry Minot French, who became a 
 successful phj'sician at Concord, and died June 13, 
 1893. His second wife died in January, 1866, and 
 June 25, 1S67, he married Mrs. Mary D. Moore, 
 daughter of Dr. John Ramsey of CireenHeld, and 
 widow of Dr. (George \\'. Mooi'e of Amiierst, who 
 survi\'es him. 
 
 (iOSS, Herbert Irvin, County Solicitor, Ber- 
 lin, was born in Waterford, \'ermont, December 4, 
 1857, son of Abel R. and Fuc)- S. (Ross) (ioss. 
 He was educated at the common schools of his 
 nati\'e town and at St. Johnsbury Academy, from 
 which he was ij-radualed in 18S0. After teachinjT 
 school for one \'ear, he commenced the study of 
 law in the office of liates & May of St. Johnsbury, 
 continuing for two years, when he was admitted to 
 
 HERIIKRT I. (;()SS. 
 
 the Rar of Caledonia count)- in 18S3. In October 
 of the same year he lemovecl to Minneapolis, Min- 
 nesota, and entered into a law partnership with 
 F. R. Wright, which continued but a short time. 
 In 1884 he returned to \ermont, and opened an 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 office in Guildhall, but in a few months removed to 
 Lancaster, Ne\Y Hampshire, to form a partnership 
 with Hon. Jacob Benton, one of the leading attor- 
 neys of the state. He was admitted to the Ijar of 
 New Hampshire in Jul\-, 1SS5. After two years he 
 severed his connection with Mr. Benton, removed 
 to (iorham, and formed a partnership with Hon, 
 A. S. 'I'witchell, \\hich continued until No\ember, 
 1888. He then went to Berlin, which place had 
 been growing rapidly and liad become an important 
 town, practiced alone until 1891, when he entered 
 into partnership with Daniel J, Daley, under the 
 firm name of 1 )aley & (ioss. This firm still con- 
 tinues. .Mr. (kiss is an al.ile lawyer, and the firm 
 has an extensive practice in this and other states. 
 He also takes an active interest in all matters relat- 
 ing to the improvement of Berlin. In politics he is 
 an ardent Republican, and is a successful leader in 
 the councils of that party. In 1S94 he was elected 
 County Solicitor, and was re-elected in 1S96. He 
 has given great satisfaction in this office. (October 
 8, 1 886, he married Agnes Rooney, and has a family 
 of four children. 
 
 GRAVES, RuFUS Edw.xrh, State Senator, Pro- 
 prietor of the Rockingham Junction Railway Res- 
 taurant, and a Farmer, was born in Brentwood, New 
 Hampshire, December 8, 1855, son of Joseph H. T, 
 and Harriet N, (Wood) (iraves. His early educa- 
 tion was gained in the common schools and at 
 Kingston Academy, He entered the railway mail 
 service in Jul)-, 1879, and serx-ed continuously for 
 sixteen years, having rapidly advanced to the posi- 
 tion of Chief Clerk of the First Division, embracing 
 Maine, New Hampshire, and parts of Massachu- 
 setts and \'ermont, with headquarters at Portland, 
 Maine. He was extremely popular with one hun- 
 dred and se\enty men who ser\ed under him in 
 this division. When he retired they gave practical 
 evidence of their appreciation for his kindness and 
 courtesy by presenting him with \aluable tokens of 
 esteem. Mr. Gra\es resigned his position in the 
 Railway Mail Ser\'ice to buy and conduct the 
 Rockingham Junction Railway Restaurant. He is 
 an enthusiastic and practical farmer and owns a 
 large herd of thoroughbred Jerseys, and is also an 
 extensi\'e breeder of Berkshire hogs. He was a 
 member of the State Senate from the Twenty-first 
 District, embracing the towns of Atkinson, Brent- 
 wood, Chester, Dan\ille, East Kingston, Exeter, 
 Fremont, Flampstead, Hampton, Hampton h'alls, 
 Kensington, Kingston, Newfields, Newton, Plais- 
 
 tow, Sandown, Seabrook, and South Hampton, He 
 has ne\er accepted any other office. In the Senate 
 he was appointed Chairman of Committees on 
 Towns and Parishes, and served on Committees of 
 Revision of Laws, Finance, and State Prison and 
 
 •3£r~- 
 
 R. E, (;raves. 
 
 Industrial .Schools. He is a Mason, Iselonging to 
 (iideon Lodge of Kingston, 
 
 GRIFFIN, Simon Goodell, was born in Nel- 
 son, New Hampshire, August 9, 1824, son of 
 Nathan and Sail)- (Wright) (Iriffin. His ancestry- 
 as far back as they have been traced, w-ere men of 
 prominence in the communities where they lived, 
 and more than ordinar\- strength of intellect and 
 force of character. His grandfather, " Squire " 
 Samuel Griffin, \\'ent, when a lad, from Bradford, 
 Massachusetts, to Temple, New- Hampshire, and 
 before the close of the Revolutionar)- War to 
 Packersfield, as the town of Nelson was then 
 called. He married the daughter of the settled 
 minister, the Reverend Jacob Foster, and made his 
 residence there. His superior abilities were soon 
 recognized by his election to the Legislature and 
 other offices. Both he and Nehemiah Wright, the 
 General's maternal grandfather, were patriotic sol- 
 diers ii-i the Continental Army, and both took part 
 in the Battle of Bunker Hill. Nathan Griffin, the 
 General's father, was a man of high ability, but not 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 57 
 
 of rugged health, though he lived to the age of 
 eighty-six. In consequence of his illness the care 
 of the family of seven children fell chiefly upon his 
 wife, one of the loveliest of women in person and 
 character, and one of those noble mothers who 
 bless the world by living in it, and her wise coun- 
 sels and careful training had a most benign and 
 happy influence upon her son. She died at the 
 age of ninety-four, her eye undimmed and her mind 
 unclouded to the last. At the age of six, the sub- 
 ject of this sketch, owing to his father's ill health, 
 went to live for some years with his uncle. General 
 Samuel Griffin, in the adjoining town of Roxbury. 
 His uncle had decided talents for military affairs, 
 and had been a volunteer in the War of 1812, but 
 not called into active ser\'ice, and attained the 
 highest rank in the State Militia. His fondness 
 for military affairs and his habit of talking about 
 military history and of repeating descriptions which 
 he had read of battles and campaigns, made a deep 
 and lasting impression upon the mind of his 
 nephew. The old general's favorite diversion was 
 to attend the annual muster of the division of 
 militia which he commanded, and to accompany 
 him on such an occasion, was a privilege his 
 nephew prized highly and looked forward to with 
 long and eager anticipation. He was a successful 
 farmer, a man of great industry and energy himself, 
 and believed firmly in hard work and frugality for 
 all his household as a means of success. Never, 
 after seven years of age, could the boy be spared 
 from the farm to attend school, except for ten or 
 twelve weeks in the winter. 'I'his was all the 
 schooling he ever I'eceived, but his natural ambi- 
 tion and eagerness for knowledge led him to spend 
 what leisure he had in reading and study, so that 
 at eighteen he was able to obtain employment as a 
 school teacher, a vocation in which he attained 
 marked success. He continued his studies while 
 he taught each winter, working on the farm in sum- 
 mer, until he had mastered all the higher English 
 branches, and became proficient in Latin and 
 French, and traversed a wide field of miscellaneous 
 reading, making a specialty of history and the lives 
 of military chieftains. Thus by inheritance, train- 
 ing, and self-education, he had become uncon- 
 sciously fitted for the work that lay before him, and 
 cultivated that patriotic devotion and aptitude for 
 military affairs which have won for him an eminent 
 place among the soldiers of his own state, and 
 made him one of the best volunteer officers in the 
 War of the I^ebellion. In 1850 he married Ilrsula, 
 
 daughter of Jason Harris of Nelson. She died 
 soon after the birth of a son who did not long sur- 
 \'ive her. After this bereavement he went to Exe- 
 ter, where he began the study of law. He had 
 previously represented his native town in the Legis- 
 lature for two years, serving in his second term 
 as Chairman of the Gommittee on fklucation. Lie 
 was admitted lu the Ilai' at Concord in i860, and 
 had just begun his practice when the war broke 
 out. A recent trip to \\'ashington had con^-inced 
 him of the a]3proach of the conflict, and of its 
 awfrflness and long continuance uhen it should 
 come. (ji\'ing up his practice, he joined a com- 
 pany of young men then forming at Concord under 
 the first call of President Lincoln for se\'enty-five 
 thousand men, and de\'otecl himself assiduously to 
 the study of military tactics. He volunteered as a 
 private and was chosen Captain of the company. 
 New Hampshire's quota of " three months' men" 
 being already full, he and his company volunteered 
 immediatel)' under the second call for three years 
 or the war. This compan\' was the celebrated 
 "Goodwin Rifles." so called out of compliment to 
 Governor Ichabod (ioodwin, Company B, Second 
 New Hampshire A'olunteers, was armed with 
 Sharp's rifles, and was the only company sent out 
 from the state armed with breech-loading weapons. 
 It was assigned to the Second Regiment with head- 
 cjuarters at Portsmouth, and there its officers and 
 men were mustered into the service of the LInited 
 States, June 4, 1S61. It was detailed mider Cap- 
 tain Griffin's command at the first battle of Pull 
 Run, for skirmish duty, and was handled with 
 remarkable coolness and bravery, though it was 
 under a hea\'y fire and lost twelve men, killed and 
 wounded. After that battle the Second New 
 Hampshire with other regiments was brigaded at 
 Pladensburg under General Joseph Hooker. His 
 attention having been called to the efi'ecti\'eness of 
 Company P's armament, he obtained for Captain 
 Griffin a leave of absence and gave him letters of 
 recommendation to the (Governor of New Hamp- 
 shire with a view to having him raise a regiment or 
 battalion similarly armed. The state authorities, 
 however, like those at \\'ashington and many regu- 
 lar army officers, ultra-conservatives and timid and 
 opposed to innovations, refused to sanction the 
 project, on the ground of the great expense in- 
 vohed. Captain (iriffin was promoted to be Lieu- 
 tenant-Colonel of the Sixth New Hampshire Volun- 
 teers on the 26th of ( )ctober, 1861, and soon joined 
 the regiment at its rende/.\'ous. I'hat regiment 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 proceeded to A^';lshing1on, and was assigned to 
 Eurnside's expedition to Nortli Carolina, and 
 landed on Hatteras Island in Jannary, 1S62. On 
 the second of March, it removed to Roanoke 
 Island, and on the 8th, six companies, under Lieu- 
 tenant-Colonel Griffin, were detailed to assist Gen- 
 eral J. G. Foster in an expedition to Columbia. 
 Upon his return to camp, the Lieutenant-Colonel 
 found himself in command of the regiment, its 
 Colonel having resigned. April 7, he commanded 
 an expedition made up of four companies of the 
 Sixth New Hampshire, and two of the Ninth New 
 York, about six hundred men in all, with five gun- 
 boats and one steam transport, sent to break up a 
 rendezvous of rebels near Elizabeth City, North 
 Carolina. Arri\'ing at the point designated just 
 before daybreak on the eighth, he ordered Major 
 Jardine, \vith the two New York Companies, to land 
 at Elizabeth City below the rebel camp, which was 
 near the ri\'er, while with his own four companies 
 he ran beyond in the darkness, and landed above 
 to cut off the enemy's retreat. The attack was 
 made simultaneously, and the rebels fled at the 
 lirst fire ; but several of the latter were killed and 
 wounded, and seventy-four were captured, together 
 •with three hundred and fifty stands of arms and 
 a quantity of ammunition. At the battle of Cam- 
 den, North Carolina, April 19, Colonel Griffin com- 
 manded his regiment, nearly one thousand strong. 
 His command being held in reserve, was ordered 
 to attack at the critical moment of the battle when 
 the enemy, from a strong position behind earth- 
 works, rail fences, and buildings, had repelled a 
 charge of part of Hawkins's brigade, and thrown 
 the L^nion lines into some confusion. Advancing 
 in line of battle. Griffin's troops faltered somewhat 
 under a sharp fire of ai'tiller}', but assured by his 
 coolness and courage, halted in perfect formation, 
 and at command, fired in a volley with such pre- 
 cision that the enemy broke and fled. It was 
 reported that men of the Third Georgia declared 
 that " they did n't care much for those red-legged 
 Zouaves, but when the regulars poured in that 
 volley, they thought it time to git." This splendid 
 achie\'ement was chiefly due to the discipline, 
 instruction, and drilling maintained by Lieutenant- 
 Colonel Griffin while commanding at Roanoke 
 Island, which ga\'e it a high reputation for smart- 
 ness in appearance, proficiency in drill, and eft'ec- 
 tiveness in action. On x\pril 22; i(S62, he was 
 commissioned Colonel of his regiment, and in July 
 was assigned to Reno's I)i\-ision of the Ninth Army 
 
 Corps, and sent to General Pope's aid for the ^'ir- 
 ginia Campaign. During the second battle of Bull 
 Run, Colonel Griffin and his regiment were almost 
 surrounded, receiving a murderous fire in front, 
 flank, and rear. Thinking the Union troops were 
 firing upon them b)' mistake, he seized the colors, 
 and waved them in the direction whence the fire 
 was hottest, onl)- to increase it. Then he ga\'e the 
 order to retreat, and brought off the remnant of his 
 men. Six of the color guard were shot down while 
 bearing the colors, and the Colonel himself at last 
 took them again and carried them off the field. 
 He participated in the battles of Chantilly, South 
 Mountain, Antietam — where his regiment was the 
 
 ^^mm^m^^?--' 
 
 S. G. GRIFI-'IN. 
 
 first to plant its colors on the heights abo\'e the 
 Stonebridge of sanguinary memory, and where for 
 gallantry in action General Purnside recommended 
 him for promotion — and Fredericksburg. In 1863, 
 he was placed permanently in command of the 
 First Brigade, Second Di\'ision, Ninth Army Corps, 
 and was transferred to Kentucky, and thence to 
 Mississippi, and participated in the campaign 
 against Yicksburg. llpon his return to Kentucky, 
 he was placed in connnand of Camp Nelson, an 
 important recruiting station, and depot of supplies. 
 While there, his regiment re-enli.sted for three years 
 or the war, and Colonel Griffin was ordered to 
 superintend the re-enlistment of New Hampshire 
 
MEN OF PR()(;RKSS. 
 
 59 
 
 veterans in the departments of Virginia and North 
 CaroHna. He was assigned, in the spring of 1864, 
 to command the Second Brigade of tlie Second 
 Division of the Ninth Army Corps in the Wilder- 
 ness Campaign. He left Alexandria with six regi- 
 ments, reporting twenty-seven hundred fighting 
 men. At the close of that great campaign, he had 
 lost, in killed and wounded, three thousand men, 
 three hundred more than his original number, regi- 
 ments and recruits iia\ing been constanth' added 
 to his command. At Spottsyhania Court House, 
 May 12, 1864, he won his star b\- bringing up his 
 brigade to Hancock's support after a successful 
 charge by the latter, which left his troops with 
 broken formations in the excitement of victor}'. 
 The brunt of a counter-charge of three C'onfed- 
 erate divisions was borne b)- Griffin's command 
 until other troops could be brought to his aid. 
 For this gallant act. Colonel (rriflin, upon recom- 
 mendation of Cenerals Crant and Burnside, was 
 nominated to be a Brigadier-General of \'olun- 
 teers, the nomination Ijeing confirmed b)- the 
 Senate, ^^■ithout debate, reference, or a dissenting 
 vote. In the engagements before Betersburgh, 
 General Griffin bore a conspicuous part, and his 
 troops ne\'er failed to gi\'e a good account of 
 themselves. In the spring of 1865 he had com- 
 mand of that part of the Union line near the Jeru- 
 salem Plank Road, and at the final assault with his 
 brigade made two separate attacks, at points a 
 mile apart, between midnight and daybreak, a feat 
 almost without parallel in the histor}' of the Ci\'il 
 War. In the last of tiiese attacks, the division 
 commander having been severel)' wounded. Gen- 
 eral Griffin succeeded him and retained conmiand 
 through the campaign, ending with Lee's surrender, 
 and until the close of the war. (_)ther troops made 
 attacks on that Sunday morning, and some of them 
 broke through the outer line of the enemy further 
 away from Petersburgh, but tiiis charge of (General 
 (irififin, made side by side with that of General 
 Hantranft, commanding a di\'ision of Bennsylvania 
 troops, with pioneers in advance to tear away the 
 abatis, was the principal assault of that morning 
 and did the hardest fighting, and was the only one 
 that broke through the enemy's main line near the 
 city. In that charge seven hundred and twenty- 
 five men of General Ciriffin's division fell. For 
 distinguished gallantry in that assault, which he 
 formed and he himself led. General (iriffin was 
 brevetted a Major-General of N'olunteers, thus 
 attaining the highest rank of any \'olunteer officer 
 
 in his state. He led his di\-ision in the grand 
 review at Washington May 23, and was mustered 
 out in August, 1865. His services had been acti\'e, 
 arduous, and honorable to a high degree ; brave, 
 read)-, of sound judgment and discretion, he was 
 alwaj's in demand at the front; and he was al\va)'s 
 with his troops when they were in battle or under 
 fire. Fie took ]3art in twenty-two great battles, as 
 well as in numberless skirmishes and lesser fights. 
 h'or months in front of l^etersburgh he was under 
 fire so sharp and constant that his brigade lo.st at 
 times five per cent, of its memliers each week. He 
 had two horses killed and li\-e wounded under him 
 in action, and had his clothing and equipments 
 frec|uentl\- cut by hostile bullets. Yet he ne\'er 
 recei\'ed a scratch, and never lost a days duty 
 from sickness, owing largel)', no doubt, to his tem- 
 perate habits. He was tendered a commission as 
 Major in the regular army at the close of the war, 
 but he declined to accejit it. During the war he 
 married Margaret Lamson of Keene, New Hamp- 
 shire, and at its close took up his residence tliere. 
 He represented the town in the Legislature in 
 i866-'68, serving two terms as .Speaker of the 
 House. 'I'wice he receixed the Republican nomi- 
 nation for Congress, but at each election his party 
 was defeated, and he was swept awa)- with the 
 other candidates. In 1867 the honorary degree of 
 Master of Arts was conferred upon him by Dart- 
 mouth College. For several \-ears after the war 
 he engaged in manufacturing near his home, but 
 later on he turned liis attention to pacific pursuits 
 in the South, and became largely interested in the 
 development of Texas, spending with his wife and 
 two sons much time in that state. More recently 
 he has been engaged in writing the history of 
 Keene, for which his scholarl)' tastes, broad learn- 
 ing, and habits of study peculiarly qualify him. 
 He has a wide reputation as a public speaker. 
 He is a member of the Massachusetts Commandery 
 of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the 
 United States, and for the years 18S7 and 1888 
 was its (Commander. 
 
 GRFP^NITKLI), CuARnEs, Farmer, Rochester, 
 was born in that place, February, iS, 1826, son of 
 John and Phcebe (Wentworth) Greenfield. He 
 conies of good old New England stock, his ancestors 
 being among the early colonists. He recei\'ed his 
 education in the common schools of Rochester and 
 at the acadeni)- in the same ]3lace. llpon leaving 
 school he chose agriculture as his life work, and 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 has engaged in that pursuit ever since. He is 
 President and Trustee of the Rochester Sa\ings 
 Bank and a Director of the National Bank. Mr. 
 Greenfield possesses quick perception, clear judg- 
 ment, and sound reason. His accuracy in matters 
 
 ni\initv School in that }ear, and graduating in 
 1S75. He was ordained Pastor of the Congrega- 
 tional church in Littleton, Massachusetts, Septem- 
 ber 2, 1875, resigning that pastorate March i, 1877, 
 to accept a call to the Congregational church in 
 \'ergennes, \'ermont, where he was installed Ma)' 
 2. 1877. His pastorate in Vergennes was highly 
 successful, hut he resigned in October, 1S83, and 
 was installed Pastor of the First church in Dover, 
 January 2, 1884. This church is the oldest in New 
 Hampshire. ha\ing been organized in 1638. and the 
 First parish dating back to October, 1633. Dr. 
 Hall is the twent_\--third on the roll of Pastors of 
 this historical church, .\mong the list are: Jeremy 
 Belknap. D. D. ; Hubbard Winslow. D. f^.. LL. D. ; 
 David Root; Elias H. Richardson. D. D., and 
 (Teorge B. Spaulding. D. D.. Lh. D. This church 
 is one of the most influential in the state, and in 
 the report of bene\-olent contributions is third in 
 New Ham]3shire. Dr. Hall's successful pastorate of 
 more than fourteen \ears. continues with unabated 
 harmon)- and strength. During this time a beauti- 
 ful and commodious chapel has been erected at an 
 
 CH.'\RL1';S OREENFIELD. 
 
 hnancial has made his word as good as his bond. 
 In politics he has al\\a\-s been a strong Republican, 
 but has ever refused public office. Mr. Greenfield 
 was married July 5, 1846, to Aroline B. Downs. 
 Thev lia\e six children li\ing : jNIillie A., John, 
 Ella S.. Sarah E.. Hattie A., and Frank Greenfield. 
 
 HALL. Gf.ori'.k Eiiw.vRji. D. D.. Pa.stor of the 
 First church in Dover, was born in Jamaica, ^^'est 
 Indies, February 23, 1S51. son of the Reverend 
 Heman B. and Sophronia (Brooks) Hall. In the 
 paternal line he traces his descent from John Hall 
 of Medford. Massachusetts, an emigrant from Eng- 
 land, who was born in 1627 ; through Percival, 
 Cambridge, Massachusetts, born in 1672 ; Stephen, 
 Medford, Massachusetts, born in 1709; Samuel R., 
 Sutton, Massachusetts, born in 1755; Josiah B., 
 Croyden, New Hampshire, born in 1790; Heman 
 B., (nnldhall, \'ermont, born in 1823; George Ed- 
 wai'd Hall was the eldest of eight children. He 
 
 CEORflE E. HAT^L. 
 
 expense of more than thirteen thousand dollars. 
 
 The church in 1895 voted Dr. Hall six months' 
 was fitted for college at the preparatory school in vacation to visit Egypt and the Holy Land, and a 
 Oberlin, Ohio, and graduated from Oberlin College further manifestation of regard was a testimonial 
 in 1872, beginning the study of theology in ^'ale b\- \oluntary gifts of eight hundred dollars, pre- 
 
MEN OF PROCRKSS. 
 
 6i 
 
 scnted to him on the eve of his departure. He has 
 been li\e times a delegate to the National Council 
 of Congregational Churches, and has been elected, 
 for the sixth time, to the Tenth Triennial Session 
 of the Council at Portland, Oregon, July 7-12, 1898. 
 He was chosen a Trustee and one of the executive 
 conniiittee of the New Hampshire Home Mission- 
 ary Society in 1895, and still retains the position. 
 He was elected a corporate member of the Ameri- 
 can ]-!oard of Commissioners for Foreign Missions 
 in 1897. He rccei\ed the degree of Doctor of ])i- 
 \inity from Dartmouth College in 1893. ISy com- 
 mission of Oox'ernor John 1!. Smith, Dr. Hall was 
 appointed in 1894 Chaplain of the I'irst Regiment 
 of the New Hampshire National (inard, a position 
 he now holds. He became a member of the School 
 Committee in Dover in 1897. Dr. Hall has been a 
 member of the W'inthrop Club of Jioston since 
 1892, and of the Monday Club of Bo.ston since 
 1896. He married Alice Monroe, daughter of the 
 late James Monroe Peabod)- of Lowell, Massachu- 
 setts. Ffer mother, Miriam J., was the daughter of 
 Joseph Niles of Chester, New Hampshire. Mrs. 
 Hall died April 6, 1883, lea\ing two children, Alice 
 Miriam and Henr\- Monroe. Dr. Hall married 
 April 16, 1890, Elizabeth Kneeland, daughter of 
 the late William AfcFarland of Salem, Massachu- 
 setts, whose father was the Rev. Asa McFarland, 
 D. D., of Concord, New Hampshire. Her mother 
 was Susan Doroth)-, daughter of Aaron Perkins of 
 Salem, Massachusetts. I^y his second marriage he 
 has two children, John McFarland and Ceorge 
 William Hall. 
 
 HAYES, John Ai^frkd, Physician and Surgeon, 
 Somersworth, was born in Jierwick, Maine, March 
 27, 1S39, ^'"^ °f P'rederick and Sara (Hurd) Ha3'es. 
 ( )n the paternal side he is of Scotch-Irish descent, 
 on the maternal of English ; and among his ances- 
 tors were man}' who possessed in a marked degree 
 the characteristics of these stocks. He attended 
 the connnon schools of ISerwick, West I^ebanon 
 Academy, West Lebanon, Maine, and the New 
 Plampton Institution. He began the study of med- 
 icine in 1868, his preceptor being Dr. J. S. Ross. 
 He took three courses of lectures at Dartmouth 
 Medical College and Jefferson Medical College, 
 Philadelphia, being graduated from Dartmouth 
 Medical College in 1861. He began the practice 
 of his profession in the New Hampshire Insane 
 A.sylum at Concord, as Assistant Physician. There 
 he remained from the autumn of j86i, until August 
 
 26, iS62,when he entered the army as yVssistant 
 Surgeon of the Eleventh New Hampshire \'olun- 
 teers, and was subsecpiently made Surgeon of the 
 regiment. Dr. Hayes saw some very active service 
 and participated in the battles of Fredericksburg, 
 
 
 J. A. HAVKS. 
 
 A'icksburg, Jackson, the siege of Knoxville, \\'ilder- 
 ness, Spottsyl\-ania, North Anna, Cold Harbor, Pet- 
 ersburg, Po]jlar Spring Church, M'eldon Railroad, 
 Hatcher's J\un, Sailor's Creek, and the engagements 
 until the surrender of Lee at Appomattox. He had 
 charge of the Second Division, Ninth Army Corps, 
 Field Hospital at Fredericksburg, ^^^lite House and 
 City Point about eight months ; and he also had 
 charge of the Provisional Camp at Alexandria, \'ir- 
 ginia, after the surrender at Appomattox. The 
 camp contained about seventeen thousand in\alid 
 soldiers from the Army of the Potomac and the 
 Army of the Cumberland. Dr. Flaj-es was bre\'etted 
 Lieutenant-Colonel of Ignited States A'olunteers, 
 March 13, 1865, for faithful and meritorious ser- 
 vices upon the following recommendation : " This 
 is to state that Dr. John A. Ha3-es, late Surgeon of 
 the P>le\'enth New Hampshire Wjlunteers, served 
 for a )'ear under m)- immediate super\-ision in con- 
 nection with the Depot Field Hospital of the Army 
 of the Potomac, at Fredericksburg, White House 
 and City Point, and that he finally acted as Execu- 
 ti\'e officer at ]lurke\-ille, \'irginia. He was a first- 
 
MEN OF PROC.RKSS. 
 
 rate officer and was entrusted with most responsible 
 duties, ill the performance of which he was most 
 reliable and untiring. I cordial]}- recommend him as 
 deserving the bre\'et of Lieutenant-Colonel. (Signed) 
 Ed. ]j. Dalton. late Surgeon. U. S. A'olunteers, 
 ISrevet Colonel, formerly in charge of Depot Field 
 Hospital. Army of the Potomac.' After the war. 
 Dr. Hayes established himself in the practice of his 
 profession in ISiddeford. Maine, where he remained 
 from the autumn of 186:; until 1S69. when he re- 
 moved to Somersworth, where he now resides. He 
 was United States Examining Surgeon for Pensions 
 from iSGy-'go, and served as Town Physician for 
 fifteen vears. He is a member of the Somersworth 
 Medical Society, the New Hampshire Medical Soci- 
 ety, and of the Cirand Army of the Republic. In 
 politics he is a Republican. Dr. Haves was mar- 
 ried March 11, 1S69. to Mary A. Rollins. He has 
 four children, Frederick L., M. D., lohn E. R., 
 Mar\-, and Helen L. Haves. 
 
 H( )DS1)( )X. Arthur Lvcurcus, President of the 
 A. L. Hodsdon Lumber Companv, Center C)ssipee. 
 was born in that town, October 13, 1S44, son of 
 Joseph and Dorcas (Gowell) Hodsdon. He is of 
 F.nglish descent. His great-grandfather, Thomas 
 Hodsdon of ]:!erwick, Maine, who served in the 
 Revolution as Captain of the Tenth (Fifth Ber- 
 wick) Company of the Second York Count\' Ivegi- 
 nient, married Margaret Goodwin of Berwick, who 
 bore him eight children David, fames, Ebenezer, 
 Ichabod. Mollie (Twombly), Sally (Ixicker). and 
 Peggy (Fogg). Da\id, the eldest son, who settled 
 on the old homestead in lierwick, took a prominent 
 part in town and countv affairs and was one of the 
 leaders in the Methodist Church. His second son, 
 Joseph, born Julv 14, 18 16. learned the tanning 
 and currving business, and upon attaining his 
 majority began business for himself at Center 
 Ossipee, Li this undertaking he was highly suc- 
 cessful, his tannery becoming one of the largest 
 and best in the country. He was active in politics 
 as a Republican, and though he did not seek office, 
 ser\'ed two terms (i&SS'STl '" the New Hamp- 
 shire Legislature ; was interested in the militia, in 
 which he held the rank of Colonel ; was a Master 
 ALison ; and was one of the firm supporters of the 
 P'irst Congregational Church of ( )ssipee, of which 
 he was for thirty-three \'ears a Deacon, and for 
 o\'er forty \'ears .Superintendent of its .Sunda\'- 
 school. He died April 15. 1897. Arthur L. 
 Hodsdon, his second child and eldest son, was 
 
 educated in the public schools of Ossipee and the 
 Academies at Effingham, New Hampshire, and 
 Fryeburg, Maine, At the age of twenty-one he 
 went into business with his father in the manufac- 
 ture of leather, also engaging in the lumber trade. 
 In 1881 he discontinued his tannery ; and in 1S87 
 he was elected President of the Pine River Lumber 
 Companv. Two vears later he bought out the 
 companv, reorganizing it as the A, L, Hodsdon 
 Coinpan\', of which he remains President and 
 Agent. In politics he is a Republican. He has 
 been a member of the State Committee for twelve 
 vears. and for many years he has been chairman of 
 the Town Committee. He was elected to the State 
 
 -\. L. HODSDOX. 
 
 Senate in i89o-'9i. He is a Mason. Odd Fellow, 
 and Knight of Pythias. Mr. Hodsdon married, 
 September 4, 1870, Charlotte M,, daughter of Dr. 
 Nathaniel and Charlotte S. (Hobbs) Grant of 
 Ossipee. They ha\e three children : Dr. ^^'alter 
 Grant. Herbert .\nhur. and Mar\- Ellen Hodsdon. 
 
 JONES, Jdiix Fr.vnki.ix. ISanker. Concord, was 
 born in Hopkinton, March 31, 183c;, son of Jona- 
 than and Sarah (Currier) Jones. He is a grand- 
 son of Jonathan Jones, a well-known resident of 
 boscawen. ( )n the maternal side he can trace his 
 descent from Richard Currier, one of the original 
 settlers of Salisbury, born in 1617 and died in 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 63 
 
 1687. Mr. Jones attended the common schools at 
 Hopkinton and Hopkinton Academy. He h\ed on 
 the home farm until he was fifteen years old, when 
 he was stricken with illness, lie was an invalid 
 for si.x years, but at the aye of twent\'-t\vo went to 
 Massachusetts, and took a position in a drug store. 
 This business not agreeing with him, he returned 
 to Hopkinton, where he worked in a general coun- 
 try store until 186 1, when he opened a store in 
 Contoocook, in company with R. T. C'rowell, and 
 did a successful business until 1867, when, his 
 health again failing, he sold out his interest to his 
 partner. From 1S67 to 1885 he lived in Contoo- 
 cook, acting as Justice and settling estates. In 
 
 f-3 
 
 JOHN F. JONES. 
 
 1S81; he was elected Treasurer of tile I^oan and 
 Trust Savings liank, a position he held until 1897, 
 when he resigned and was elected President of the 
 same bank, a post he now holds. In the twent}'- 
 five years he lived in Contoocook he settled (jver 
 forty estates, and acted as Commissioner and Trus- 
 tee in the settlement of a number of others. He 
 was Town Clerk in Hopkinton from 1S61 to 1868, 
 and again served in that office in 1875. ^^ ^'^''^^ 
 Town Treasurer from 1S61 to 1866, and again held 
 this office in 1872. He was a member of the State 
 Constitutional Convention in 1876. Among the 
 other offices he has held are : Treasurer of Merri- 
 mack county ; Park Connnissioner of Concord ; 
 
 Director eif the ]'"irst National Rank of Hillsborough, 
 i874-\jo inclusiv-e ; Director of the National State 
 Capital I!ank of Concord from 1881 to date; 'IVus- 
 tee to the Loan and Trust Savings ISank from 
 1874 to date; Treasurer of the New Hampshire 
 Antiquarian Society, i872-'97, and President for 
 two years ; 'I'reasurer of the Woodsum Steamboat 
 Company from its organization in J872 to date; 
 Treasurer of the Manufacturers' and Merchants' 
 Mutual Insurance Company of Concord from its 
 organization in 1886 to the present time. He is a 
 member of Kearsargc Lodge, Independent ( )rclcr 
 of Odd Fellows of Contoocook; of PSlazing .Star 
 Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ; 'Frinity Chap- 
 ter, Royal Arch Masons; Horace Chase Council 
 and Mt. Horeb Commanclery of Concord, being its 
 Treasurer since 1891 ; Edward A. Raymond Con- 
 sistory of Nashua; New Hampshire Historical 
 Societ}' ;' and New Hampshire Antiquarian .Society. 
 He is a member of the First Raptist Cliurcii of 
 Hopkinton and of the Young Men's Christian 
 yYssociation of C'oncord. He married October 23, 
 1861, Maria H. Parnard. He has two children, 
 J. Arthur and Charles C. Jones. 
 
 KENT, Herve\-, Retired Manufacturer, Exeter, 
 was born in Alstead, New Hampshire, in April, 
 1818, son of Captain Asa and Polly (Abel) Kent. 
 His grandfather on tlie paternal side, Isaac Kent, 
 removed from Connecticut to Alstead, where he 
 died in 1833, at the age of ninety-two years. He 
 was a very energetic man, and at seventy-H\'e was 
 as \'igoroirs as most men at fifty. He was married 
 four times. On the maternal side, he is descended 
 from the Reverend Alfred Abel, who lived to the 
 good old age of ninety-three. The subject of this 
 sketch attended the public schools of his natix-e 
 town and local academy, working on the farm after 
 teaching sch(jol in the winter. He remained on the 
 farm until nearly twenty-one years old, and had his 
 first experience in manufacturing in the Nashua 
 Mills in 1839, I'cceiving three dollars a week as 
 wages. So(jn after, he went «ith one of the over- 
 seers, Renjamin Osgood, to the lirst mill started on 
 the Stark corporation in Manchester, New Hamp- 
 shire, as third hand in tire spinning-room, and was 
 advanced to the position of Second ( )verseer. 
 When Superintendent Amory Warren went from 
 the Stark Mills to Newton Upper Falls Mills as 
 Agent, he employed Mr. Kent to go with him as 
 Overseer of the spinning, and there he remained 
 four years, remo\-ing to Fitchburg, where he hired 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 a small mill called the Rock\ille. He started the 
 mill on a h\e years' lease in 184^, and was \erv 
 successful until the tariff changes largely reduced 
 the profits. In 1847 hs sold out his interest in the 
 Rockville Mill to his partner, to accept a position 
 with John Smith, as Superintendent and Paymaster 
 at Barre, Massachusetts. Leaving this business at 
 the close of one year, he accepted a position as 
 Overseer of spinning under Cieneral H. K. Oliver 
 of the Atlantic Mills, of I^awrence, Massachusetts. 
 There he remained until i8i;4. when he became Su- 
 perintendent of the Great Falls Mills of Somersworth 
 under John A. Purleigh. He remained there until 
 the hard times of 1857 led to a reduction in the out- 
 put of the mills. He was out of business for some 
 months when he went to Pittsfield, as Agent of the 
 mills controlled b\- the Dale ISrothers of fioston. 
 Then he went to Lewiston, Maine, as Superintendent 
 of the Androscoggin Mills under Agent Amos C. 
 Lockwood, and was there nearlv two years, leaving 
 that place to accept the Agenc)- of the F.xeter Mills 
 under the Dale ISrothers Ov Company. He held 
 the Agency until 1876. when he became Treasurer 
 
 field Mill. Mr. Kent retires with commtndable 
 pride at the results of his thirt_\--three years' man- 
 agement. AMien he took charge of the Exeter Mill, 
 the Company had not paid a dividend for eleven 
 years. The stock was sold for two hundred dollars, 
 par si.x hundred and fifty dollars. The second 
 year the Company paid fift\- dollars per share, and 
 continued the same for some thirteen years. The 
 mill, originally, had two hundred thirty-six-inch 
 looms, with mostly old machinery. \\'hen he 
 retired, he left there a mill of six hundred forty- 
 inch looms, with a large proportion of the machin- 
 erv new, up-to-date, modern mill, which has run 
 when other mills ha\e been closed. In 1897, Mr. 
 Kent was chosen President of the Exeter Manufac- 
 turing Company, which position he now holds. He 
 is a member of Philips Church, in which he has 
 been a Deacon for about thirty years. He is a 
 Mason and an Odd Fellow, and at one time a 
 member of the New Hampshire Club, and of the 
 Textile and New England Manufacturing Associa- 
 tion. He has never been active in politics. He 
 married, in 1S41, Eliza Jane Hanson of Derr)', 
 New Hampshire. His children are : Georgia L., 
 Emma J., Cora L., and George Edward Kent, of 
 whom Cora and George sur\'ive. Mr. Kent is now 
 over eighty years old, and he says he has never 
 enjoyed life more keenly than at the present time. 
 He may be seen at his old desk one half the time, 
 but gives no orders, and is, practically, retired. 
 He firmly believes in the over-ruling hand of God's 
 special Providence, and that it is not in man to 
 direct his steps. At his age, the future begins to 
 dawn with hope growing brighter day by day, " as 
 the truer life grows brighter every year." 
 
 KENNETT, Ai^pheus Crosiiv, State Senator, 
 Conwa\-, was born in Madison, New Hampshire, 
 Juh' 27, 1S59, SO" of William and Sarah Eastman 
 (Russell) Kennett. The Kennett family traces its 
 descent from St. Gregory's Kent, who was de- 
 scended from the Royal House of Canute of Den- 
 mark, and settled upon the demesne of Rolla of 
 Normandy in the ^'ar de Saire of that Dukedom. 
 At the time of the concpiest, he went over to Eng- 
 HKRVEY KENT. land in the Suite of William the First. Two knights 
 
 of the family set sail in 1647 fo'' the Province of 
 and Agent, which he held until May, 1895, when he Virginia. i\Ir. Kennett attended the town schools 
 resigned in fa\or of his son, George E. Kent, who of Madison and New Hampton Institute. His 
 has since bought the Pittsfield Mill. George E. boyhood was passed on a farm, but at seventeen 
 Kent is manager of both concerns. The Exeter he went to work for the Eastern Railroad as tele- 
 Manufacturing Compan)- having leased the Pitts- graph operator. He was elected Representative to 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 6S 
 
 the Legislature in 1S95 and 1S96; \\'as State Sen- pal of the lirewster Free Aeadeni)' at \\'olfboro, 
 ator in 1897 and 1S98. Me has rank of Colonel New Hampshire. Mr. Lord was one of the pioneers 
 in Governor Ranisdell's staff. Li polities he is a in the field for the direet applieation of eleetricity 
 Republiean. Colonel Kennett married April 13, for many purposes for whieh it is now commonly 
 1882, Carrie L. Gerrish of South Lerwick, Maine, used. The cit\' of Lawrence was the first in the 
 
 world to have its streets lighted wholly by elec- 
 tricity to the exclusion of gas and oil. The I")aily 
 American of that city, G. S. Merrill, lulitor, was the 
 first daily jsaper in tlie world to be published by 
 electi'ic power, while the I'emberton Mills had the 
 hrst electric freight elevator. All of these were 
 in.stalled by Mr. Loixl. It is, however, as an educa- 
 tor that Mr. Lord has done his best work. His suc- 
 cess as an instructor in the Lowell High School 
 soon caused him to be sought by the l^awrence 
 school committee as Principal of the High School 
 in that city, the offer coming without any solicita- 
 tion on his part. During the few )-ears that he held 
 his position he wf)n the good will of scholars, 
 teachers and citizens, fr)r the many qualities which 
 are necessar\' for a successful fiigh School Princi- 
 pal. Li 1887, when the llrewster Free Academy 
 of W'olfboro, New Hampshire, was opened, under 
 
 A. CROSBY KENNETT. 
 
 who died October i, 1882; October 31, 18S8, he 
 married Lora Ferren of Madison, He has one son, 
 Frank Eddison Kennett, born C)etober 22, 1897. 
 
 LORD, EnwiN Howard, Educator and Electri- 
 cian, was born in .Springvale, Maine, June 1, 1850, 
 son of Samuel and Sophia Hight (Smith) Lord. ( )n 
 the paternal side he traces his descent from the 
 Lord family of South Lerwick, Maine. Mr. Lord 
 attended the conunon schools of .Springvale, and 
 South Lerwick Academy for two terms, then going 
 to New Hampton Academy for three terms. He 
 was graduated from IJowdoin College in 1871, with 
 the degree of A. ]i., and took the degree of A. M., 
 from Harvard College, graduating in the class of 
 1881. From 187 1 to 1873 ^^'^ ^'^"^'^^ Principal of 
 Richmond, Maine, ILgh School; from 1873 to 
 iSSo he was teacher of Science in the Lowell, 
 Massachusetts, High School; from 18S0 to 1884 he 
 was principal of the Lawrence, Massachusetts, High 
 
 EDWIN H. I.ORI). 
 
 the provisions of the will of the late John Brewster 
 of Cambridge, INLrssachusetts, the Trustees, not 
 School; from 1882 to 1886 he was Treasurer and having decided upon a permanent Principal, asked 
 Manager of the Edison Electric Illuminating Com- him to become Acting Principal for a few years, 
 pany of Lawrence. Since 1S87 he has been Princi- He organized the school, and conducted it with 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 such ^.uisfaction Xo the Trustees th;it in a short 
 time he was conhniied as Principal without anv 
 time limit. This academy, unique in nian\- 
 respects, is a credit to the executive abilit\' of its 
 Principal, (jpen to both se.xes, it presents many 
 problems in government which onlv a clear head 
 and an impartial mind could soh'e. The rules are 
 verv fe« . and few of them are laid dbwn in words. 
 The spirit of the institution demands that the pupils 
 shall be ladies and gentlemen, and whatever con- 
 flicts «ith those standards is to be disapproved. 
 Little espionage, that horror of the average scholar, 
 is employed, cases of discipline are few, and the 
 tone of the school alwavs gi\'es a stranger the im- 
 pression that the students are there for stud)-, pri- 
 marilv. and that incidentalh', the\' all manage to 
 ha\'e a good time, without detriment to school work. 
 He is a A'ice-Presideut of the .Sons of Nathan Lord. 
 He is a member of the Kilwinning Lodge, Ancient 
 Free and Accepted ALisons ; of the Club, Lowell ; 
 of the Monday NigW Club, Lawrence, and Lowell 
 Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In 
 politics he is a Republican. Mr. Lord was married 
 July, TS73, to Acldie M. Decker, of Prunswick, 
 Maine, who died in ( )ctober, US73. ^Ir. Lord was 
 again married No\'ember, 1S77, to Julia Swift JSen- 
 nett of Lowell, Massachusetts. He has three chil- 
 dren, Ada Jeanette, \^'illiam Swift, and Mar)' Pen- 
 nett Lord. 
 
 L1A\'AXI)(). b'sKi'H. Merchant, W'olfboro, was 
 born in Poston, Massachusetts, December 3, 1S50, 
 son of Adolph and Fmily (Smith) Lewando. He 
 received his earl)- education in the Highland Mil- 
 itary Academv, in \\'orcester, Massachusetts, and 
 attended the Chemical Department of the I^awrence 
 Scientihc School, Cambridge, during the years 
 1869 and 1S70. His father had established at 
 \\'atertow'n, Massachusetts, the Lewando Dye 
 \\'orks, for the super\'ision and charge of \vhich the 
 son was trained. Li 1S70 he took charge and held 
 the position for h\e )'ears, when the business not 
 being to his liking, he remo\'ed to Mt. 'Pabor, Ore- 
 gon, w here he engaged in general merchandise for 
 eight years, establishing the first store in that place. 
 He conducted a most successful business, and was 
 large]\" interested in real estate in the town. In 
 1S79. '^'- established the postoffice at i\It. 'Pabor, 
 recei\'ing his appointment from Postma.ster-General 
 Key. In 18S3, he returned to the East and settled 
 in ^^'olfboro, where he conducts a general bus- 
 iness. He served for three years in the New 
 
 Hampshire National Guard as Captain of Company 
 K, Third Regiment. He was a member of the 
 Legislature in 1S97, when he was Chairman of the 
 Committee on Mileage, and a member of the 
 Committee on Panks. In politics Mr. Lewando is a 
 
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 p»»* '"*'*.- 
 
 JOSEPH LEWANDO. 
 
 Republican. He was an alternate to the Conven- 
 tion at Minneapolis in 1892. During the pa.st 
 twelve years he has held various offices in his 
 adopted town. He is a member of Morning Star 
 Lodge, No. 17, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, 
 of Carroll Chapter, No. 23, Royal Arch Masons, 
 and of St. Paul Commandery, Knights Templar, 
 Do\er, New Hampshire. Mr. Lewando was mar- 
 ried September 10, 1875, to Nellie J. Morgan. They 
 have two children, Alice C, and Dolph Lewando. 
 
 MELVILLE, Henry, Lawyer, New York city, 
 was born in Nelson, New Hampshire, August 25, 
 185S, son of Josiah Henry and Nancy Rebecca 
 (Nesmith) Melville. His ancestors on his fathers 
 side were among the first settlers of Charlestown, 
 Massachusetts, and on his mother's among the 
 founders of Londonderr)-, New Hampshire. The 
 fighting qualities of the stock from which he comes 
 are shown by the fact that he is a member of the 
 Sons of the Revolution by virtue of descent from 
 Privates Josiah Melvin (Melville) Sr., and Josiah 
 Melvin (Melville) Jr., of Concord, Massachusetts; 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
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 Captain Jonas jNIinot and Colonel James ISarrett of 
 Concord, Massachusetts; Private James Nesmith 
 and Sergeant Adam Dickey of Londonderry; and 
 l^rivate Josiah ^^'hitney, Jr., and firigadier-General 
 Josiah W'hitne)-, Sr., of Harxard, Massachusetts; 
 while he is a member of the Society of Colonial 
 Wars by descent from Captain 'Phomas Brooks, 
 Captain Jonas l^rescott. Captain )onas I'rescott, 
 2nd., Captain Timothy Wheeler, Captain James 
 Gregg-, Captain James Afinot, Colonel James liur- 
 rett, Lieutenant-Colonel Josiah M'hitney, Sergeant 
 Joseph Houston, John Prescott, x\dani Dickey, and 
 John Melvin (Meh'ille). He was fitted for college 
 by the Rev. Joseph A. Leach of Keene, and was 
 graduated from Dartmouth in 1879. For two 
 years he was principal of the High School at Win- 
 chendon, Massachusetts, and then spent three years 
 in the Harvard I^aw School, being graduated with 
 the degrees of A. !\f. and LI^. B. cum laude in 
 1884. Going to New York he entered the office of 
 James C. Carter, the leader of the New ^'ork liar. 
 He was admitted to the Ijar in 1885, and in that 
 year formed business relations with Roscoe Conk- 
 
 HENRY MELVILLE. 
 
 ling which continued until Ah. Conkling's death in 
 1 888. He was a member of the law firm of Dough- 
 erty, Melville & Sweetser until the death of Daniel 
 Dougherty. His present firm is Melville, Martin & 
 Stephens of 120 Proadway. Mr. Melville makes a 
 
 specialty of corporation, patent and trade-mark 
 causes, and has figured in some very important 
 cases. Ffe enlisted in the Seventh Regiment 
 National (iuard of New York in 1889, and at 
 present is Captain of Company A, Eighth Regi- 
 ment. The state volunteered his Company, and 
 they have gone to the front in the present war. He 
 is a member of the f)artmouth Ahunni Association, 
 Harvard Club, Lawyers" Club, Association of the 
 liar, LIniversity Club, Republican Club, Society of 
 Medical Jurisprudence, New England Society, and 
 Order of the Foimders and Defenders, as well as 
 the two patriotic societies mentioned above. In 
 politics he is a Republican. 
 
 NILES, William \\'()(jr)RUFF, (Protestant l'4Dis- 
 copal) Bishop of New Hampshire, Concord, was 
 born in Hatley, I>ower Canada (now the Province 
 of Quebec), May 24, 1832, son of Daniel Swit and 
 Delia (Woodruff) Niles. His father's family is said 
 to have been originall}' Irish, his ancestors having 
 been carried away captives to Wales about 1172, 
 because of their refusal to submit to the English 
 rule in Ireland. John Niles (then spelled Niel 
 commonly, though originalh' in Ireland Nials) 
 came to New England in 1634. From him Bishop 
 Niles is descended in the sexenth generation. W^il- 
 liam Woodruff, his mothers father, married Ruth 
 Porter of Farmington, Connecticut, who was in the 
 fifth generation from Robert Porter, one of the 
 settlers of Farmington, from which Robert was also 
 descended Noah Porter, the late President of Yale 
 Lhiiversity. The f-'orters appear originally to have 
 lived in England at Wroxall Abbey, and in Hatton 
 and Haseley, in Warwickshire. William W. Niles 
 attended the Charleston Academy in Hatley and 
 Derby Academy in Vermont, but he studied largely 
 alone in a beautiful country, with books to read 
 and suggestions from a highly intelligent father and 
 mother. His home v.as deep in the country, two 
 miles from a x'illage even, and the boy found his 
 surroundings admirably fitted for meditation. 
 Later on he had the experiences of " keeping 
 school" and "boarding around" for five terms 
 before going to college ; and those afforded him as 
 a tutor in college for a year after graduation, and 
 as a teacher for two years in the Hartford High 
 School. A further useful part of the training for 
 active life was, no doubt, the habit in later youth 
 and early manhood of nfingling much with people, 
 and largely with persons having veiy varied notions, 
 religious and political. He was graduated from 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 Trinity College, Hartford, 
 Berkeley Divinity School in 1861 ; was ordained 
 Deacon by Dr. Williams, laishop of Connecticut, in 
 1861, and ordained Priest by Dr. George Iku'gess, 
 Bishop of Maine, in Ma)-, 1862. He was Rector 
 
 1857, and from of the Orphans' Home at Concord, and the New 
 
 WILLIAM \V. NILES. 
 
 of St. Philips Church at Wiscasset, Maine, for three 
 years; then Professor in Latin in Trinity College 
 for six years. For the last three of these years, 
 and when he was elected Bishop of New Hamp- 
 shire, he was also l^ector of St. John's Church at 
 Warehouse Point. He was for a time editor of the 
 Churchman. He was consecrated Bishop in St. 
 Paul's Church, Concord, on St. Matthew's Day in 
 1870, by the Presiding Bishop, Dr. 13. V>. Smith and 
 by the Bishops of Connecticut, Maine, and Albany, 
 Dr. J. W. Williams, Bishop of Quebec, joining in 
 the laying on of hands. Bishop Niles received the 
 degree of Doctor of Di\'inity from Trinity College 
 in 1870, and later the same degree from Dart- 
 mouth, and from Trinity the degree of Doctor of 
 Laws in 1896. ^^'hile in college he was a member 
 of Psi Upsilon Fraternity. He is President of the 
 corporation of St. l^aul's School in Concord ; St. 
 Mary's School for Girls in Concord ; of Holderness 
 School for Boys, I^lymouth, New Hampshire; a 
 Trustee of Trinity College, and of the General 
 Theological Seminary in New York; for many 
 vears President of the Alumni Association of the 
 Ijerkeley Divinity School at Middletown ; President 
 
 England Episcopal member of the Board of lALana- 
 gers of Domestic and Foreign Missions at New 
 York. He was a member of the Committee of the 
 General Convention for re\-ision of the list of chap- 
 ters of Scripture to be read in church ; of the Com- 
 mittee of re\'ision of the I^ra\er Jiook and of 
 that for the revision of marginal readings in the 
 Bible. Bishop Niles was married in St. John's 
 Church, Hartford, June 5. 1862, to Bertha Olmsted, 
 a descendant from James Olmsted, one of the 
 settlers of Hartford. His children are : John 
 Olmstead, Edward Cullen, INfary, \\'illiam Porter, 
 Daniel Swit, and Bertha Niles. 
 
 MACK, \^'iLLiAM 13ARKER, Ph)sician, E.xeter, 
 was born in Bellows Falls, A'ermont, January 26, 
 1852, son of William F. and Elizabeth A. (Barker) 
 
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 WILLIAM B. MACK. 
 
 Mack. He comes of good old New England stock. 
 He was educated in the common schools of Bellows 
 Falls, and at Norwich (Vermont) Academy and 
 Dartmouth College. In 1874 he entered Dart- 
 mouth Medical College, from which he was gradu- 
 ated in 1877. In 1878 he opened an office in 
 Dover, New Hampshire, and practiced there two 
 years, when he renio\-ed to Salmon Falls, New 
 Hampshire. After remaining there for eight years, 
 he went to Exeter, where he has remained until the 
 present time. He is one of the Attending Physi- 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 69 
 
 cians of the Exeter Cottage Hospital. In politics 
 he is a Republican. In 1S81, Dr. Mack married 
 Evelyn M. Dennett. They ha\e one son : Walter 
 Barker Mack, fourteen years of age. 
 
 MITCHELL, AiiRAM Whittemore, Physician, 
 Epping, was born in Lempster, New Hampshire, 
 P'ebruary 8, 1862, son of Andrew j. and Mary M. 
 (Whittemore) Mitchell. His paternal grandfather 
 was William Mitchell of Acworth, New Hampshire, 
 and his maternal grandfather, Amos \Mrittemore of 
 Wilton, New Hampshire. He received his early 
 education in the district and High schools of his 
 native town and in the Newport High School. 
 During this time he worked on his father's farm 
 and taught in the district schools until he entered 
 the Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, New Hamp- 
 shire, where he spent one )'ear and was graduated 
 in 1S83. Subsequently he was Superintendent of 
 Schools and Principal of the High School at Lemp- 
 ster and Principal of Marlow Academy. From the 
 time of his graduation until the fall of 1885, he 
 studied medicine with 1 )r. Carl A. Allen of Acworth 
 
 ABRAM W. MITCHELL. 
 
 and Dr. Marshall Perkins of Marlow. He then 
 spent one year in the Medical College of liurlington, 
 Vermont, and one in the Medical Department of the 
 L^niversity of New York, from which he was gradu- 
 ated in 1S87. He attended the Post-graduate Medi- 
 
 cal School of New York from October to December 
 in 1895. After practicing medicine and surgery at 
 Harris\ille, New Hampshire, from April, 1887, to 
 April in the following year, he removed to Epping 
 where he has since remained. He is Physician to 
 Rockingham County Asylum, Almshouse and Jail 
 at Brentwood. He was a member of the State 
 Legislature in 1897. He is a Mason, a member of 
 Sulli\an Lodge, and an Odd Fellow, member of 
 Geneva Lodge. Dr. Mitchell is a member of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church of Epping. In politics 
 he is a Democrat. On (Jctober 17, 1888, he was 
 married to Hattie F. Perkins of Marlow. They 
 have three children ; Avis W., Karl P. and 
 Richard A. Mitchell. 
 
 NIMS, Francis C)rman, Real Estate and Lum- 
 ber Dealer, Keene, was born in Sullivan, New 
 Hampshire, January 10, 1846, son of Frederick B. 
 and Harriet (Wardell) Nims. He comes of a 
 family which has distinguished itself in the military 
 service of the country. On the paternal side his 
 great-grandfather. Colonel White, served in the 
 Revolutionary War seven years. His father was 
 for se\-eral years a Captain in the State Militia. An 
 uncle, Colonel ( ). F. Nims of Boston, was com- 
 mander of the famous Nims Battery before and 
 during the Rebellion. The subject of this sketch 
 was educated in the common schools of Sullivan ; 
 remained on his father's farm until he was twenty 
 years of age ; served a year's clerkship in Keene. 
 and with his brothers, G. H. and M. W. Nims, es- 
 tablished a meat and provision business which was 
 conducted successfully until 1S84. Since then he 
 has been a dealer in real estate and lumber. He 
 is a large owner of property in Keene and 
 Marlborough. He has always taken a keen inter- 
 est in military affairs. In 1S77, when Company 
 G, the city's first company, was formed in Keene, 
 he was one of its original members, and he is now 
 the only one remaining with a record of continuous 
 service. In 1878 he was appointed Corporal, in 
 1879 Third Sergeant and Second Sergeant, and in 
 18S0 First Sergeant. July 27, 1883, he became 
 Second Lieutenant, and in December of the same 
 year, First Lieutenant. July 24, 1S84, he was 
 elected Captain of the Company, which from 1884 
 to 1889 had the highest rank of any company in 
 the state. August i, 1889, he was commissioned 
 Major of the Second Regiment, New Hampshire 
 National Guards, of which he was Major five years. 
 In August, 1891, Major Nims was detailed by the 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 (;o\-en-ior to command the liattalion, to attend and of Somersworth, October 26, 1730 ; and he preached 
 represent the state at the dedication of the Ben- his last sermon, October 31, 1790. Of his ■ sons, 
 ninj^on Battle Monument. He was commissioned Nicholas, a celebrated teacher, was graduated from 
 Lieutenant-Colonel August 31, 1894. Colonel Harvard in 1766, and was the author of a famous 
 Nims has recei\ed many compliments for guard arithmetic. Another son was John Pike, who was 
 
 the great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch. 
 On his mother's side. Judge Pike traces his descent 
 from Humphrey Chadbourne, who came to this 
 country about i63i,and who died in 1666. He 
 attended the common schools of Rollinsford, and 
 Berwick Academ\' at South Berwick, Maine, and 
 then entered Dartmouth College in the Scientilic 
 Department, being graduated in 1S72. Upon leav- 
 ing college, he engaged in civil engineering, and 
 
 FRANCIS O. NIMS. 
 
 dut\- and efficiency in handling troops, and for 
 the excellence of discipline of his command. In 
 politics he is a Democrat. For live years as Over- 
 seer of the Poor of the city of Keene, his adminis- 
 tration was marked b\- judgment and economy. 
 He married, in 1S70, Ella F. Hall, daughter of 
 Oliver and Marietta (Watkins) Hall of ^^'alpole. 
 
 I'lKF, R<ii;krt (ioRDON, Associate Justice of the 
 Supreme Court of New Hampshire, Dover, was 
 born in Rollinsford, New Flampsliire, July 2S, 1S51, 
 son of Amos \A". and Elizabeth M. (Chadbourne) 
 Pike. On the paternal side he is descended from 
 John I'ike, an emigrant from England, who settled 
 in Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1635. John Pike's 
 great-great-grandson, the Reverend James Pike, 
 preached his lirst sermon (October 23, 1726, and in 
 the following year began to preach to the people in 
 that part of Dover, which in 1729 was set off to 
 form the town of Somersworth. From the latter 
 town, in 1849, ^^'"^^ ^^^ °^ ^'^^ town of Rollinsford, 
 wherein the meeting-house in which he preached 
 was situated. He was ordained as the first Pastor 
 
 ROr.ERT a. PIKE. 
 
 was one of the surveying party who ran the lines of 
 the Dover and Portsmouth Ivailroad, in 1S73. ^'^ 
 was an Assistant Engineer on the Waltham Water 
 Works construction, and in 1874 entered the oflfice 
 of Shedd & Sawyer, civil engineers, in Boston. He 
 taught the three following years in a South Berwick 
 Grammar School, beginning the study of law in 
 1878, with the late Chief Justice Doe. He was 
 admitted to the liar of the State Courts in March, 
 i88i,ancl to the Bar of the Circuit Court of the 
 United States in November, 1894. Immediately 
 upon his admission to the Bar in 1881, he began 
 practice at Dover. He was appointed Judge of the 
 Probate Court for Strafford county, the appoint- 
 
MKN ()]■• pro(;ress. 
 
 71 
 
 ment taking effect DecemfK-r 28, 1893, and was 
 City Solicitor in 188 7 -'89, and for two montlis in 
 1S93. He was appointed Associate Justice of tire 
 Supreme Court of the State April 14, 1896. From 
 1877 to 1SS2 he was Superintendent of Schools 
 in Rollinsford, and then declined a re-appointment. 
 He was Trustee of Strafford Savings Rani? (orig- 
 inally known as Sax-ings liank for the County of 
 Strafford) from 1890 to July, 1896, when he 
 resigned the office. \\'hen the I)o\er ^^'ater Board 
 was established, he served as a member for a short 
 time. He has been a Trustee of h'ranklin Academy 
 since September i, 1883, and Treasurer from Au- 
 gust 5, 1S84, to August 5, 1896, when he resigned. 
 For o\-er two years he was a member of the School 
 Board of the City of Dover, declining a re-election. 
 In politics he is a Republican. 
 
 PEASLFF, Benjamin Douce, Physician, Hills- 
 borough Bridge, was born in W'eare, New Hamp- 
 shire, April 18, 1857, son of R.obert and Persis 
 Boardman (Dodge) Peaslee. He is a descendant 
 of Joseph and Mar}- Peaslee, who came from Eng- 
 land in 1638 and settled in Newbury, Massachu- 
 
 Institution and at the McCollom Institute, Mont 
 Vernon, New Hampshire. He pursued his profes- 
 sional studies in the Boston University Medical 
 School, in the Pulte Medical College, Cincinnati, 
 Ohio, and in the New York Ophthalmic (_'ol- 
 lege and Hospital. In 1879, he began practice 
 at Meredith, New Hampshire, and practiced for a 
 time in Bradford and ('oncord, New Hampshire, 
 and Melrose, Massachusetts. P'or two years he was 
 Superintendent of the dry-goods house of Hough- 
 ton iV' Dutton, boston, Massachusetts. Owing to 
 ill health, he was obliged to gi\e up active practice 
 and business life, and now resides in Hillsborough 
 Bridge, and devotes his lime to special work of the 
 eye and ear, being obliged to spend the winters in 
 the South. He is a lo\'er of fine horses and of all 
 outdoor sports, especiall}- trout fishing, and is well 
 acc|uainte(l with all the brooks in the vicinity. He 
 is a member of .Melrose Club, of Melrose, Massa- 
 chusetts, and of the New Hampshire Medical So- 
 ciety. He is a Mason, a member of Harmony 
 Lodge No. 38, and of \^'oods Chapter No. 14, 
 Royal Arch Masons. Dr. Peaslee was married 
 Februar)' 11, 1880, to Alice M. Hammond, and 
 June II, 1889,10 flattie Dutton. He has one son: 
 Karl Hammond Peaslee, born January 7, 1881. 
 
 BENJAMIN I). PEASLEE. 
 
 RFYN( )LDS, 'I'homas ( )si;o()ii. Physician, Kings- 
 ton, was born in C_'hester, New Hampshire, Decem- 
 ber 24, 1S42, son of Thomas F. and Khiry (Currier) 
 Reynolds. His ancestors came to this country 
 from the north of England. He receix-ed his early 
 education in the public schools and Academy at 
 Chester. He spent three years and a half in the 
 Army, the last two and a half in the Medical De- 
 partment, acting as clerk, steward, cadet, and for 
 seven months as Assistant-Surgeon on the P'reed- 
 man's Bureau. In the course of his professional 
 studies he attended Long Island Medical College, 
 Brooklyn ; ISellex'ue Medical College, New York 
 city ; and Albany Medical College, from which he 
 was graduated December 24, 1866. He tra\elled 
 extensively in the West and .South, but in 1870 set- 
 tled in Kingston, where he has since remained. He 
 was a Trustee of Kingston Academy for five years 
 in the '8o's, being President of the board one year. 
 He is a Director of a Western Real Estate Com- 
 
 setts. Joseph Peaslee was a physician of much pany and of an extensi\e book concern in Boston, 
 repute, and was the first Quaker preacher, whose In war time he was made a Free Mason in Ion 
 influence resulted in the formation of the first Lodge, Kentucky, and since 1871 has been a mem- 
 Society of Friends in 1653. Dr. Peaslee received ber of Gideon Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted 
 his education in the New Hampton Literary Masons, Kingston, in which he has held \arious 
 
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 MEN OF PR0GRP:SS. 
 
 offices, having been Worshipful Master in 1879, 1880, High School of that city in June, 1S78. He studied 
 and 18S1. He is a member of St. Albans Royal law in the office of W. ']". c\: H. F. Norris in 1878^ 
 Arch Chapter of Exeter, Past Commander of Gen- 79. He attended the Poston ITniversity Law School 
 eral Patten Post, Grand Army of the Republic of in i879-'8o, and again read in the office of J. Y. 
 Kingston, and a member of Burnside command, Mugridge in i88o-'8i. He was admitted to the 
 
 l^ar in 1S81, passing a highly creditable examina- 
 tion, and began the practice of his profession in 
 Concord. In July, 1S93. he formed a partnership 
 with Henry F. Hollis under the firm name of Sargent 
 & Hollis, and May i, 1S96, Edward C. Niles was 
 added to the firm, which then became Sargent, Hol- 
 lis & Niles. Mr. Sargent has had extensive practice 
 before legislative committees and the various courts 
 in New Hampshire. He was associated with Gen- 
 
 THOMAS O. REYNOLDS. 
 
 Union Veteran Union, of Haverhill, Massachusetts. 
 He is a Republican. July 13, 1870, he married M. 
 Fanny Smith of Raymond. They ha.\e one daugh- 
 ter : Mabel, born Ma)- 5, 1S71. Dr. I^ej-nolds has 
 been in acti\e practice for thirty-one years, and is 
 about to retire. He has written considerably on 
 microscopy and astronomy for scientific magazines. 
 
 SARGENT, Harrv Gene, City Solicitor, Con- 
 cord, was born in Pittsfield, New Hampshire, Sep- 
 tember 30, [S59, son of Samuel Merrill and Cyrene 
 (Mitchell) Sargent. His father was for many \ears 
 an engineer on the Concord Railroad. On the 
 paternal side he traces his ancestrj' to ^^'illiam 
 Sargent, son of Richard Sargent, barrister-at-law in 
 London, England, born in 1602. William was 
 appointed Midshipman in the navy, and in 161 4 
 sailed with Captain John Smith to Jamestown, Vir- 
 ginia. He left A'irginia and went to Massachu- 
 setts ; the exact date is not known, but his name 
 appears in the Massachusetts Colony records for 
 April, 1633. Harry Sargent attended the public 
 schools of Concord and was graduated from the 
 
 ^%c1f%| 
 
 H. (;. SARGENT. 
 
 eral Wayne MacVeagh as counsel for Austin Corbin 
 of New York before a committee of the legislature 
 and in the Supreme Court in the matter relative to 
 the state's interest in the Concord Railroad. Dur- 
 ing the session of 1891 he made an argument in 
 Representatives' Hall in opposition to the Mount 
 Washington bill, and after that was counsel for 
 Coe & Pingree in suits in the State and Circuit 
 courts which involved the title to the summit of 
 Mount Washington. He served as County Solici- 
 tor from January, 1885, to Januar\', 1887, and has 
 been City Solicitor of Concord fronr January, 1887, 
 until the present time ; is a Trustee of the Margaret 
 Pillsbury General Hospital in Concord, and a 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 73 
 
 Trustee of the Protestant Episcopal Church in 
 New Hampsliire ; President of the Snowshoe Chib, 
 and a member of the l^assacona\va_v Chib. He 
 married, December 14, i88j, Ehzabeth Dudley. 
 They have one daughter : Margaret Dudley Sar- 
 gent, born June 10, 1S83. 
 
 ROLLINS, Frank ^^'l.;s■r, Lawyer and Hanker of 
 Concord, was born in Concord, New Flampshire, 
 February 24, 1S60, son of Edward Henry and Ellen 
 (^^■est) Rollins. His family has been prominent in 
 the affairs of the state for more than two centuries ; 
 his father represented New Hampshire in both 
 houses of Congress. He was educated in the 
 schools of Concord, bv Moses Woolson, at the Mas- 
 sachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a 
 member of the class of 'Si, and at tlie LLrrvarcl Law 
 school. His law preceptor was John Y. Mugridge, 
 and he was admitted to the liar in August, 1882. 
 After practicing his profession for a year he entered 
 the banking house of E. H. I^ollins &: Sons, becom- 
 ing Vice-President of the house after its incorpora- 
 tion and taking charge of the lioston office, although 
 
 FRANK W. ROI.r.INS. 
 
 he retained his residence in Concord, hi politics 
 he is a Republican. In 1S95 he was elected to the 
 State Senate, of which he was chosen President. 
 He has served in vaiious capacities in the National 
 Guard from Pri\ate to Assistant Adjutant (General 
 
 with the rank of Lieutenant-C'olonel. He is an 
 attendant of the Episcopal church and a Trustee of 
 St. Mary's School for Crirls. He has written much 
 and well, his published works including, " The 
 Ring in the Clin," '■ Break ( )'day Tales," "The 
 Twin Hussars," and " The Lady of the Violets," 
 besides many magazine articles and short stories. 
 In 1893 Dartmouth conferred upon him the degree 
 of M. A. Mr. Rollins, who is an able speaker, 
 made the address for the New England delegation 
 which journeyed to Canton to visit Mr. McKinley 
 in 1896. 
 
 SMITH, Charles Stewari', long one of the 
 leading merchants of New York and connected 
 with many of its financial institutions, was born in 
 Exeter, New Hampshire, March 2, 1S32, son of 
 John and Esther Mary (Woodruff) Smith. His 
 father was a Minister of the First Congregational 
 Church of that place. His mother was a daughter 
 of Aaron D. ^^'oodruft', iVttorney-Cieneral of New 
 Jersey. On the paternal side, Mr, Smith is of 
 English descent, the family having settled in the 
 valley of the Connecticut in 1641. He was edu- 
 cated at the Exeter public and High School, and 
 was taught Latin and Greek by his father. At 
 fifteen he taught school in Connecticut, and a year 
 later he went to New York, becoming clerk in a 
 dry-goods house. Upon attaining his majority, he 
 was admitted to partnership with S. B. Chittenden 
 & Company, and for several years lived abroad as 
 their European buyer. Later he formed the firm 
 of Smith, Hogg iX; Gardner, which succeeded to 
 the dry-goods commission house of A. & A. Law- 
 rence of Boston, Mr. Smith retired from active 
 business in 1887. In 1884 he was elected Vice- 
 President of the Chamber of Commerce of New 
 York, and three years later was elected its Presi- 
 dent, which position he held for seven years. He 
 has been prominently connected with a number of 
 great corporations. He was one of the founders of 
 the Fifth Avenue Bank, and of the German-Amer- 
 ican Insurance Company; is a Director of the 
 United States Trust Company, Fourth National 
 and Merchants' 15anks, (Jreenwich Savings Bank, 
 and Equitable Life Assurance Society. He is 
 also Trustee of the Presbyterian Hospital. He is 
 Vice-President of the Union League Club, a mem- 
 ber of the Merchants', Metropolitan, City, Law- 
 yers', Players', and Century clubs of New York, 
 and of the New England Society. He is an occa- 
 sional contributor to the North American Review 
 
74 
 
 mp:n of progress. 
 
 and is the fortunate possessor of a choice and well- 
 known collection of paintings, including fine exam- 
 ples of the old masters. He is a life member of 
 the National Academy of Design, and Trustee of 
 the iNIetropolitan Museum of Art. In the course 
 of a recent visit to Japan, he purchased the remark- 
 able collection of Japanese porcelains and other 
 objects of ait made by Captain lirinkley, during a 
 residence of twenty-five years in Japan, and pre- 
 sented it to the Metropolitan Museum. In politics 
 he is a Republican. He was tendered, in 1894, 
 the nomination of his party for Mayor of New 
 \'ork, but declined the honor. Mr. Smith has for 
 many years been actixe and prominent in reform 
 movements in New York. He was Chairman of 
 the Chamber of Commerce Railroad Committee, 
 which after a long struggle and public in\'estiga- 
 tion made b\' the Hepburn Committee, secured for 
 New York state the benefit of a Railroad Com- 
 mission. He was Chairman of the Executi\'e Com- 
 mittee of the Committee of Seventy that overthrew 
 Tammany Hall and elected Mayor Strong in 1894, 
 and was also chairman of the E.xecutive Committee 
 of tile Citizens" Union in 1897 that nominated Seth 
 
 CHARLES S. SMITH. 
 
 Low for Mayor, and with an organization exi.sting 
 but six months, cast one hundred and fifty thousand 
 votes for its candidate, and was only defeated by 
 the hostility of the Machines who feared a muni- 
 cipal government untrammelled by party obligations. 
 
 STARK, Cii.MS, Physician, Afanchester, was 
 born in that cit)-, February 9, 1865, son of Freder- 
 ick G., and Anna h. (Hutchinson) Stark. He is a 
 great-great-grandson of General John Stark, He 
 received his education in the schools of his native 
 place, graduating from the High School in the 
 class of '83. Later he attended Dartmouth Medi- 
 cal College and was graduated June 27, i8Sg. He 
 
 GTLLIS STAI^K. 
 
 began practice in Rockland, Massachusetts, but 
 the following P'ebruary removed to Northwood, 
 New Hampshire, where he remained fifteen months. 
 At the end of that time he settled in Manchester, 
 where he is now in practice. He was elected 
 Alderman in November, 1896, for a term of two 
 years. He is an Odd Fellow, a Knight of Pythias, 
 a Knight of Ancient Essenic ( )rder. and a member 
 of the Foresters of America. In politics he is a 
 Democrat. Dr. Stark mairiecl, April 4, 1893, (Ger- 
 trude M. Hall. 
 
 TOWNE, Georck Dana, Ph)-sician, Manchester, 
 was born in Newport, New Ham|3shire, January 12, 
 1854, son of Daniel Dana and lletsey liean (Robin- 
 son) Towne. His parents were both of English de- 
 scent, his father's ancestors coming from Yarmouth. 
 He is in the ninth generation from \\'illiam and 
 Joanna (151essing) 'Fowne, who settled in Salem, 
 Massachusetts, and removed to Topsfield, Massa- 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 75 
 
 chusctts, in 1656. Dr. Towne was educated in tlie 
 pviblic scliools of Mancliester and later at Dart- 
 mouth, where he was graduated in 1S75. He pur- 
 sued his medical studies at the Universit)- of the 
 City of New York, being graduated in 187S. He 
 
 CEORCE 11. TOWNE. 
 
 has been engaged in tlie practice of medicine in 
 iVIanchester since that time. He has been Surgeon 
 of the Elliot tfospital since 1S90, and Chairman of 
 its Medical fioard. He has served as Cit)f and 
 County Physician, member of the Health lioard of 
 the cit)', Chairman of the JJoard of Education, local 
 Medical Examiner for fifteen different life insur- 
 ance companies. Surgeon of the Amoskeag Veter- 
 ans and Consulting Surgeon of the Hillsborough 
 County Earm. Dr. Towne is a member of the New 
 Hampshire l\fedical Society, the Manchester Med- 
 ical Association, the Medico-Legal .Societ}' of New 
 York, the Center District Medical Society and an 
 honorary member of the 1 )artmouth Medical Alumni 
 Association. He is also a member of the Derry- 
 field Club, Manchester, of \\'hich he has been f-'res- 
 ident. 
 
 THOMPSON, James, Lumberman, Hooksett, 
 was born in Merrimack, New Hampshire, October 
 22, 1S26, son of James and I-^riscilla (Woods) 
 Thompson. He takes pride in the fact that 
 he bears the name of the founder of the family in 
 
 America, James 'J'hompson, from whom he is a 
 descendant in the eighth generation, one of the 
 original settlers of Woburn, Massachusetts, who 
 was a leader of a band who settled in that part of 
 the place now known as North Woburn. James 
 Thompson, the first, when he landed in this coun- 
 try, was thirty-seven years old, married, and had 
 four children, and he is believed to have been con- 
 nected with families in London eminent in social, 
 intellectual, and religious spheres, a considerable 
 number of whose members recei\'ed the Order of 
 Knighthood. P'or many )X'ars he was a great 
 force in the communit)', and was largely connected 
 with the management of its public and religious 
 affairs. His numerous descendants are found in 
 nearly every section of the United States, and in 
 several foreign countries. Their genealogy includes, 
 among the dead and living, the names of man)' men 
 prominent in the different walks of life, among them 
 being lienjamin 'Phompson, better known as Count 
 Rumford. Jonathan 'Phompson, grandfather of the 
 subject of this sketch, was a bra\'e soldier in the 
 Revolution, who had a part in the battle of fjunker 
 Hill, where he used bullets which he had " run " 
 just before that contest began. James Thompson 
 is connected on the maternal side with the Reed 
 family, one of whose members is the Hon. Thomas 
 ]!. Reed, Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 He attended the district school of Merrimack, and 
 there studied industriousl\-, and as he grew older 
 assisted his father in the regular work on the farm. 
 One autumn, when he was about thirteen, he was 
 greatly elated to have the chance to pick apples at 
 twelve and a half cents a day, for a neighboring 
 farmer. It was the first opportunit)- he had to 
 earn ready money, and he improved it to the best 
 of his ability, working from daylight to dark each 
 day. When his emplojer paid him, he remarked : 
 " You have clone well ; you will make a smart 
 man." 'I'his incident is mentioned as illustrating 
 the push, energ)', and ambition of the bo)', and 
 also because it pro\'ed the first stepping-stone in a 
 career that has made him one of the wealthiest 
 men in the valley in which he was born. His 
 father, whose means were limited, appreciated the 
 son's ability, and when the boy was nearly sixteen 
 urged him to seek a field of greater opportunities, 
 saying: "James, you have been a faithful son to 
 me, but this is not the place for you to get your 
 start in the world. You have ability, and can do 
 much better than you are doing here, and 1 want 
 you to go somewhere, and strike out for yourself. 
 
76 
 
 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 I freely give vou vour time, and 1 am sorry tliat I 
 am so situated that I cannot do more for you." 
 Accepting the kind advice of his father, the son 
 " hired out " to an uncle, Jeremiah Woods, a 
 farmer of jNferrimack, where his first vear's earn- 
 
 JAMES THDMl^SON. 
 
 ings amounted to about a hundred dollars in cash, 
 besides his board, which for those clays was do- 
 ing remarkably well for a boy in his teens. He 
 remained there three years. A part of his work 
 was to assist his uncle in catching wild pigeons, 
 and there he got his first lessons in an industry 
 that he pursued extensively in later life. After- 
 wards, he was employed at lumbering by Gilman 
 Palmer, a stage-driver between Nashua and Con- 
 cord. He ne.xt worked for the Kittredges at brick- 
 making, and stayed with them until he learned to 
 do the "striking.' I'hen for several seasons he 
 worked as a " striker " in the brick-yards of vari- 
 ous proprietors, and received handsome wages. 
 Subsequently, while lumbering for Captain Nathan 
 Parker, in Merrimack, he had the pluck to buy, 
 on his own account, with cash and on credit, a 
 timber lot which was sold by auction, and which he 
 cleared, making a good prolit. That transaction 
 was the beginning of a business which he has 
 followed to the present time, and the extent of 
 which has been such as to justly include him 
 among the " Lumber Kings " of New Hampshire. 
 He has owned and operated upon forest tracts in 
 
 twent\--one towns in the (Granite State, mostly in 
 Merrimack and Hillsborough counties. In some 
 winters, ninety-two horses, fifty-six yokes of oxen, 
 and several hnndred men were required in prose- 
 cuting the work. In addition to the manufacturing 
 of lumber and forwarding it to the markets by rail, 
 Mr. Thompson has sent many millions of logs 
 down the Merrimack ri\-er, and has also dealt 
 largely in the finest of ship timber. For many 
 years in the open season, he was busily engaged in 
 catching wild pigeons, and consigning them to 
 commission merchants in Boston, New York, and 
 Chicago, following this occupation not only in New 
 England but in New York, Pennsyh'ania, and in 
 the far \\'est, including Minnesota, and thus earn- 
 ing the sobriquet of the "largest pigeoner " in the 
 United States. Mr. Thompson has always taken 
 great pains in his agricultural efforts, and his home 
 farm in the sun-lit \-alley of the Merrimack em- 
 braces four hundred acres of the choicest alluvial 
 land. His spacious and ancient farm-house, large 
 and well arranged barns, splendid cattle and well- 
 tilled fields, constitute one of the model farming 
 establishments of his native state. Although 
 always keenl}' interested in civil and political affairs 
 Mr. Thompson has ne\'er been a politician in the 
 general acceptation of the term, yet while a resi- 
 dent of Bow he was elected a Representative to the 
 Legislature in i860 and iS6i,and also in 1870 and 
 187 1. During those four terms of service in the 
 General Court he was a member of several impor- 
 tant committees, and by his voice and votes exerted 
 a strong influence upon the character of the legisla- 
 tion enacted in those years. He has often been 
 urged to allow the use of his name in connection 
 with other responsible public positions, but has 
 always emphatically declined on the ground that 
 his pri\'ate affairs demanded all his time. In the 
 financial world he is widel)' known, being inter- 
 ested in many monied and textile corporations. He 
 is a Director of the Manchester and North \\'eare 
 Railroad, and also a Director of the recently organ- 
 ized Hosiery Mills Company of Hooksett. Offices 
 in other similar corporations have often been 
 tendered him, but he declined them. The only 
 secret body to which he belongs is the Grange of 
 the Patrons of Husbanchy of Hooksett, where he 
 has resided since 1871. On November 11, 1852, 
 he was married to Miss Susannah M. Colby of 
 Bow, who died in April, 1 897. James Thompson, 2nd, 
 a nephew of Mr. Thompson's, resides with him and 
 assists him in the management of his varied busi- 
 
MEN OF PR()(;RESS. 
 
 77 
 
 ness interests. He has one brother, Luther W. 
 Thompson of JMontana, and four sisters : Mrs. 
 Sophia R. Jones of Chelsea, Massachusetts ; Mrs. 
 Clarissa A. Parker of Nashua ; Mrs. Lucincla A. 
 Jackman of Wilmington, Delaware; and Mrs. 
 Elizabeth E. l^olfe of Newburyport, Massachu- 
 setts. Mr. Thompson is a gentleman of frank and 
 pleasing manners, easily makes friends and holds 
 them, advocates temperance and strictly practices 
 it, prides himself upon his integrity and honorable 
 dealings in all his transactions, contributes liber- 
 ally to the support of religion and all other good 
 causes, and is recognized throughout New Hamp- 
 shire as a progressive, public-spirited, and influen- 
 tial citizen. 
 
 TUTTLE, J.JiMES Pai'ierson, Lawyer, Man- 
 chester, was born in New Jkiston, New Hampshire, 
 July 17, 1856, son of James Moore and Rachel 
 Patterson (McNeil) Tuttle. ()n the paternal side he 
 is of P',nglish descent, tracing his ancestry to John 
 Tothill, who came from I)e\'onshire in the early 
 clays of the Colonies and settled in Hover. His 
 
 JAMES P. TUTTEE. 
 
 mother's ancestors came from the north of Ireland 
 and settled in Londonderry, New Hampshire. Mr. 
 Tuttle received his education in the common schools 
 of his native town, in the Academy at Francestown, 
 New Hampshire, and in the Cushing Academy at 
 
 Ashburnham, Massachusetts. He read law with 
 David Cross and John H. Andrews, of Manchester, 
 attended the Law School of fioston irniversity, 
 graduating from that institution in June, 1885, and 
 was admitted to the New lianipshire Par, July 29, 
 1885. Since September of that year he has been 
 engaged in the practice of his profession in Man- 
 chester. He was a Representati\-e to the General 
 Court from New boston in 18S7 and has been 
 Solicitor of Hillsborough county since April, 1893. 
 He is a member of the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen, and of the Ridgley Lodge of Odd Fel- 
 lows. In politics Mr. Tuttle is a Republican. He 
 married January i, 1887, Lizzie J. Punten of Dun- 
 barton, New Hampshire. 'J'hey ha\-e four daugh- 
 ters : Dora Morton, Rachel \\'inifred, Florence 
 Elizabeth, and Margaret Esther Tuttle. 
 
 UPTON, Peter, bank President, East Jaffrey, 
 was born in T^mgsboro, Massachusetts, October i, 
 18 16, son of Jonathan and Nancy (Whittemore) 
 bfpton. He is sixth in descent from John Upton, 
 who was one of the Scottish prisoners taken by 
 Cromwell either at the Pattle of Dunbar or \^'orces- 
 ter, and who came to this country earlj- in the last 
 half of the seventeenth century. Mr. llpton was 
 educated in the common school at T\ngsboro and 
 at Dunstable and at the Academies in Pepperell and 
 New Ipswich. He then entered the store of Samp- 
 son Fletcher at New Ipswich, remaining there until 
 1837, when he went to East jaffrey and became 
 clerk in Hiram Duncan's store. After two years, 
 he entered into partnership with Mr. Duncan. In 
 1 85 I the first State Rank began business in Jaffrey 
 and Mr. llpton was made Cashier. In 1865, it was 
 changed to a National Rank and he continued as 
 Cashier until 1881. He was then made President, 
 which office he still holds, and his son Hiram was 
 chosen Cashier. He was 'Preasurer for twenty-six 
 }'ears of the Monadnock Sa\'ings Rank at East Jaf- 
 frey. In 1 86 1 President Lincoln appointed him 
 Postmaster at the same place and he held the posi- 
 tion uniil 1884. He was a member of the Legisla- 
 ture of i848-'5o and was in Governor Currier's 
 Council in i885-'87. It was largely through his 
 exertions that the Monadnock Railroad from \^'in- 
 chendon to Peterboro was built in 1872, and he was 
 a .stockholder and Director from that time until the 
 road was bought b)' the Fitchburg Railroad. Mr. 
 Upton has probably done more than any other per- 
 son toward building up and improving East Jaffrey. 
 
ys 
 
 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 The new libiaiy building was erected under his 
 care and superxision, and he contributed toward it 
 in order to have it properly built. Mr. Upton has 
 always been an active Republican. (")n June 28, 
 1853, he was married to Sarah M. Duncan, daugh- 
 
 and carriage trimming, Christopher \A'ilder com- 
 menced business in Conway Village, then a stage 
 center, in 1850, and continued to carr)- on the same 
 until 1875. While a member of the Legislature in 
 1869, he succeeded in obtaining the charter of the 
 Conway Sa\ings liank, assisted in its organization 
 the following years, and has e\'er since been con- 
 nected with the institution as a Trustee. P"or 
 eleven years, he served as Assistant .Treasurer and 
 Secretary, and since 1885, has been its Treasurer. 
 In 187 I he \\'as appointed Register of the Probate 
 Court b)- Governor \\'eston, holding the position 
 five years, and has been in practice in that court up 
 to the present time. He was Commissioner for 
 Carroll count}' in ]86o-'63, member of the Board 
 of Selectmen of Conway in 1864, 1865, 1866, 1867, 
 a Representative to the State Legislature in 1868 
 and 1869, and again a Selectman in 1S77 and 1S78. 
 He is an Odd Fellow, having been a member of 
 the Saco Valley Lodge, No. 21, from 1854 to 1892, 
 and of Swift River Lodge, No. 84, from 1892 up to 
 the present time. He is a member of the Metho- 
 dist Episcopal Societ)' in Conway ^'illage. In poli- 
 
 PETER UPTUN. 
 
 ter of Hiram Duncan of Jaft're}', former partner of 
 Mr. Upton. They have three children : Mary A., 
 now Mrs. \\'. L. (loodnow ; Hiram Duncan Upton 
 of Manchester, New Hampshire ; and Alice W., 
 now Mrs. S. 11 Pearmain of iSoston. 
 
 AMLDER, Cmristopher W'm.kkr, Bank 'I'reas- 
 urer, Conway, New Hampshire, was born in Lan- 
 caster, Massachusetts, Januar}- 7, 1829, son of Eli- 
 sha and Emily (I'ollard) Wilder. He is of English 
 descent, being in the sixth generation from Thomas 
 Wilder, who came from I^anca.ster and settled in 
 the town of the same name in A'lassachusetts. It 
 is interesting to note that in a signature, July i, 
 1659, to a Co\enant, entered into by the first set- 
 tlers of Lancaster, he spelled his name Wyelder. 
 The subject of this sketch was educated in the com- 
 mon schools and in the Academy at Fryelsurg, 
 Maine. Upon the death of his mother, his father 
 had found a home for the three children with an 
 aunt in Conway, New Hampshire. After serving 
 an apprenticeship in the ti'ade of harness making 
 
 CHRISTOPHER W. WILDER. 
 
 tics he is a Democrat. Mr. \^'ilder was married 
 November 25, 1S52, to Sophia (Greenwood of Farm- 
 ington, Maine. They have had three children : 
 George Sidney, Annette A., Fred G., and Henry P. 
 \^'ilder. The last named onlv is living. 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 79 
 
 TW'ITCHELL, Albert Shiukski, Lawyer, (ior- (lOrhani ; an ( )dd l-'ellow, a nicnilacr of (".len Lodge 
 ham, was born in liethel, Maine, September i6, at the same place; a member of ISramhall Lodge 
 
 1S40, son of Joseph A. and Orinda L. (INhtson) 
 TwitchelL He is a descendant of two of the oldest 
 families who settled in Oxford county, INFaine. He 
 
 No. 3, Knights of f'ythias, f-'ortland, Maine, and is 
 President of tiie Oorhani Five Cent Savings Pank. 
 In politics he is a Republican, from principle 
 rather than policy. He married May 7, 1869, 
 Emma A. Howland of Gorham. They had two 
 children: Harold 1'., boin May 31, 1875, "'^o '^'■'^'^1 
 May 23, 1883; and Rita ^fay Twitchell, born May 
 16, 18S9. 
 
 ^\'ALLAC'F,, SuMNKK, Shoe Manufacturer, 
 Rochester, was b(.)i-n in that place March 7, 1856, 
 son of Fbenezer G. and Sarah F. {(Sreenfield) Wal- 
 lace. ( )n his father's side, he is of Scotch-frish 
 descent and on his mother's, F.nghsh. lie received 
 his early education in the public schools and at the 
 Academy in his native town, Later, he prepared 
 for college at the South Perwick Acadeni)', entered 
 f)artmouth and was graduated in 1S77. h'or a 
 number of years after leaving college, he worked in 
 the shop at the bench and is now a member of the 
 firm of I'",. G. iv E. Wallace, manufacturers of boots 
 
 ALBERT S. TWn'CHEIT.. 
 
 received his education in Gould's Academy in his 
 native town. Lfe left school at the age of sixteen 
 and taught for a time in the conuiion schools. 
 During the Civil War, he ser\ed as an enlisted 
 soldier. He studied law and was admitted to the 
 Par at Paris, Maine, at the September term, 1S65, 
 and to the New Hampshire fiar, at Lancaster, at 
 the October term, 1866. fieginning the practice of 
 his profession at Gorham in 1866, he has remained 
 there ever since. He was Selectman of the town 
 for three years and has been a member of the 
 School Poard for the past twelve years. P"or three 
 years, he was Railroad Commissioner for New 
 Hampshire and Commissary General of New 
 Hampshire for two years. He served as Consul at 
 Santiago de Cuba, under President Harrison. He 
 was President of the New Hampshire Veterans' 
 Association for two years ; has been Judge Advo- 
 cate and Junior and Senior Vice-Commander, De- 
 partment New Flampshire (irand Army of the 
 Republic, and is at present the Department Com- 
 mander. Mr. Twitchell is a Thirty-second degree turing Company, of the Strafford INIanufacturing 
 Mason; a member of John E.Willis Post No. 59, Company, of the Star fklting Company, of the 
 
 SUMNER W.4LLACE. 
 
 and shoes. He is President of the Rochester Loan 
 and Banking Company, and of the Union Electric 
 Company, a Director of the Great Falls Manufac- 
 
So 
 
 MEy OF PROGRESS. 
 
 StandLird Ri\L-t Company, Eoston, of the Union 
 National ISnnlv of ( )niaha, of the First National 
 Bank of Carroll, Iowa, of the INFrnchester & Law- 
 rence Railroad, and of the Pialtimore & Annapolis 
 Short Line Railroad. He is a Trustee of the Roch- 
 ester Librar}'. In 1878 Mr. Wallace was Super- 
 visor of the check-list, in 1885 was a member of 
 the Leijislature, and for a number of years was a 
 member of the State Central Committee. He has 
 been through the chairs in the Odd Fellows, and is 
 a Mason and a Rniyht of the Fssenic Order. He 
 was married |anuar\' 30, 1884, to Harriet Z. Curtis. 
 They have one son : Scott ^^'allace. 
 
 where his descendants lived down to 1861 
 
 Mr. 
 
 ALLEN, J.\MES Fr.xnklin, Indian Department 
 at \\'ashington. District of Columbia, a resident of 
 Rockville, Maryland, was born in Hopkinton, New 
 
 J.\MES F. .\LLEN. 
 
 Hampshire, August 13, 1841, son of Jonathan 
 Leach and Caroline Brown (AUisonj Allen, He is 
 descended in the paternal line in the seventh gen- 
 eration from William Allen, who came from Eng- 
 land to Cape Ann, now Gloucester, for and with the 
 Dorchester Company in 1624, and went to Naum- 
 keag, now Salem, three years later, and in T640 
 moved to Manchester, Massachusetts, then called 
 Jeffries' (_'reek. Jonathan Allen in the fourth gen- 
 eration from William, remo\ ed to Hopkinton, New 
 Hampshire, in 1780, where he died in 1792, and 
 
 Allen's maternal grandfather, James Allison, lived 
 for many years in Dunbarton, of which town he was 
 Postmaster, and represented it in the Legislature 
 in iS2 7-'28. His great-grandfather came to this 
 country in 1718, and settled with the Scotch-Irish 
 Colony in Londonderry. He attended the common 
 schools of Hopkinton, and Hopkinton and Pem- 
 broke Academies. He was graduated from Dart- 
 mouth College in the class of 1862 ; studied law 
 with the Hon. Mason ^^'. Tappan for about six 
 months, and graduated with the class of the Law 
 Department of Columbian College, \^'ashington. 
 District of Columbia, June 12, 1866. He was 
 admitted to the Bar June 12 of that year. From 
 December 23, 1863, to December 31, 1875, ^'^^ '^^'^^ 
 employed as a clerk in the office of the Third Audi- 
 tor of the Treasury of W'ashington, resigning this 
 office to engage in the practice of law and claims 
 business until March 7, 1881, when he was ap- 
 pointed to a clerkship in the War Department. He 
 resigned Eebruar)' 14, 1882, to accept a position in 
 the Indian Department which he holds at the pres- 
 ent time, having been promoted through all the 
 various grades. He was a Commissioner to negotiate 
 with the Nez Perce Indians, November 14, 1892, 
 and thus employed until February 18, 1893. He 
 is a member of the Town Council, Rockville, Mary- 
 land, i896-'98. He is a Mason and Past Master 
 of the Pentalpha Lodge, No. 23, Washington, Dis- 
 trict of Columbia, and Montgomery Lodge, No. 
 195, Rockville, Maryland, Ancient P'ree and Ac- 
 cepted Masons ; Past High Priest Mount Vernon 
 Chapter, No. 3, Washington, District of Columbia, 
 and Montgomery Chapter, No. 33, Rockville, Mary- 
 land, Royal Arch Masons ; Past Illustrious Master, 
 King Solomon Council, No. 13, Royal and Select 
 Master, Rockville, Maryland ; Past Commander of 
 the Columbia Commandery, No. 2, Knights Tem- 
 plar, Washington, District of Columbia, and at 
 present Junior Warden of the Grand Lodge of 
 Masons of Maryland. He is a Republican, but has 
 not been active in politics. Mr. Allen was married 
 October 25, 1866, to Julia A. Dow, and August 28, 
 188S, to Lilabel Mans. 
 
 ALLISON, George Aucu.stus, for many years 
 a leading merchant of lioston, and who died in that 
 city in January, 1898, was a New Hampshire man 
 and a native of Warner. He was born September 
 14, 1843, •''O" '3f James and Mary (Ireland) Allison. 
 His father was a native of Dunbarton, and was 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 born in 17S4. On the paternal side, AFr. Allison 
 traces his descent from Clan JNlacAllister of the 
 Scotch-Irish race. It is recorded in 171S that 
 Samuel Allison, then twenty-eight 3'ears of age, left 
 Londonderr)-, Ireland, for lioston. The next jear 
 he moved to Nutheld, now Londonderry, New 
 Hampshire, where in the cemetery his gravestone 
 may be seen. \Mien Oeorge Allison was two years 
 old the family mo\ed from Warner to Manchester, 
 and again in 1S53 to Goffstown. The boy at- 
 tended the district school, and a little later studied 
 Greek, his instructor being the minister of his par- 
 ish. He became a student of Pembroke Academy, 
 where he was known for his diligent attention to 
 his books. \Mien he was tifteen years old he 
 walked from the Academy to Concord and back, 
 a distance of tifteen miles, to hear a lecture by 
 
 G. A. ALLISON. 
 
 Edward Everett. He took an academical course at 
 Pembroke with the hope of going to Dartmouth and 
 fitting for medicine, but circumstances did not per- 
 mit the carrying out of this plan, and he went into 
 the employ of his brother, in Concord, who «as 
 a pharmacist. Py the time he was eighteen, Mr. 
 Allison was recognized as a competent and especially 
 accurate druggist. He finally graduated from the 
 retail to the wholesale business of a druggist, and 
 in i86g became a partner in the firm of Poor, 
 Towne iS; Company, of Poston. In 1S78 Mr. Alli- 
 
 son went into the wholesale flour business with the 
 firm of Dorr, Heald \: Co., which soon became 
 Dorr, Allison & Co., and for the remaining 
 twenty years of his life he was widely known in 
 that line of trade. Among his business accjuaint- 
 ances all o\'er the country, he enjo)'ed a marked 
 degree of confidence, and at his decease, tributes of 
 regard were recei\'ed l)y his family and firm from 
 about forty of the best known business concerns in 
 the flour trade in the country. In 11S65, Mr. Alli- 
 son took up his residence in Cambridge, where he 
 soon became a factor of good in the life of the city. 
 Eor two years he was a member of the (Common 
 Council, for two more an Alderman, and for four 
 years served on the School Poard. He was a 
 Director of the Chamber of C'ommerce for five 
 years, was Treasurer of the Sons of New Hampshire, 
 and x^uditor of the Colonial Club. He held many 
 important positions in the North Avenue Paptist 
 church, of which he became a member in 1870. At 
 the time of his death he was Vice-President of the 
 Cajnljridge Club. He was a meiuber of the Amer- 
 ican Order of United Workmen, and Royal Arca- 
 num. In politics he was always a Republican. Mr. 
 Allison was married November 12, 1S64, and left 
 three children. 
 
 AMEN, Harlan Pai;e, Principal of Phillips 
 Exeter Academy, was born at Sinking Spring, 
 Highland county, Ohio, April 14, 1853, son of 
 Daniel and Sarah Jane (Parbour) Amen. On the 
 paternal side, his ancestors were of the Huguenot 
 stock, who went from Erance to Switzerland, where 
 representatives of the family still live, some of them 
 having held high public offices in recent years. 
 Durst Ammen, for religious and political reasons, left 
 Switzerland for America. His descendants (Ammen 
 and Amen by name) have lived mostly in Virginia 
 and Ohio. Admiral Daniel Ammen and General 
 Jacob Amen are representatives of the Virginia and 
 Ohio fanfily. Harlan P. Amen attended the com- 
 mon schools of his native town, and in 1868 and 
 1870 studied at the Portsmouth High School. 
 The story of his struggle for an education, and his 
 success as a teacher and student, is an inspiration 
 in itself, \^'hile he was a pupil of the Portsmouth 
 High School, he found it necessary to earn some 
 money. He became a clerk in the A'alley Pook- 
 store, a wholesale and retail establishment, the pro- 
 prietor of which was Captain W. W. Reilly. Here 
 he kept the books, and acted as stock-boy. While 
 he was bookkeeper, a fire did great damage to the 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 store, and Mr. Amen's effort.s in saving the account 
 books, and a part of tlie stock, led to his employer 
 presenting him a watch, the first timekeeper he 
 ever possessed. He studied hard, during his 
 clerkship, and was much encouraged in his ambi- 
 tion for an education by his former principal of the 
 High School, as well as by a minister and physi- 
 cian in his native town. \\'hen he came East, and 
 began his studies at Exeter in 1872, he found him- 
 self with only thirty-five dollars in his pocket, but 
 he obtained \arious employments, including tutor- 
 ing, etc., and was able to support himself and lay 
 by seventy-five dollars in his last year, when he won 
 the (iordon scholarsiiip, the second largest prize 
 
 f 
 
 HARLAN P. AIHEN. 
 
 (one hundred and twenty dollars), then existing in 
 the school. His closest competitor was William 
 I)e Witt Hyde, now l^resident of IJowdoin College. 
 Mr. Hyde and Mr. Amen were room-mates at 
 Exeter, and afterwards at Harvard, and have been 
 close friends ever since. Mr. Amen entered Har- 
 vard College with honors in 1S75, f^'^d w^is gradu- 
 ated in 1879, having won a scholarship in each 
 year of his course. He began teaching, immedi- 
 ately upon his graduation from Harvard, and 
 became an Instructor in Riverview Academy, 
 Poughkeepsie, New York, in the fall of 1879. 
 After three years, he accepted an offer as equal 
 partner with Otis Bisbee and Joseph B. Ijisbee in 
 
 the firm of JSisbee, Son & Amen, to manage the 
 business affairs of the Academy. When he began 
 teaching in 1879, the total enrolment of students at 
 Riverview was fort3'-one. The school had been 
 losing ground for many years, but after iS79-'8o 
 the number of students steadily increased until it 
 reached a maximum of one hundred and eighty- 
 four, a year or two before he left the school. In 
 1885, Mr. Otis Bisbee died. The school then 
 came into the hands of his son and Mr. Amen, as 
 equal principals and proprietors. This partnership 
 continued until June, 1895, when Mr. Amen left 
 Riverview to become Principal of Phillips Exeter 
 Academy. There his administration has been 
 markedly successful. He was honored with the 
 degree of A. M. by Williams College in 1886, and 
 in 1 888 was elected an honorary member of the 
 American Whig Society, of Princeton University. 
 He is a member of the Twilight Club and Univer- 
 sity Club of New York ; the Appalachian Mountain 
 Club and University Club of fJoston ; the Ameri- 
 can Archa;ological Society, the American Philologi- 
 cal Society, member and officer of several educa- 
 tional organizations, etc. In 1892, he spent four 
 months on a trip abroad, visiting the public schools 
 of England, — Rugby, Eton, Harrow, Winchester, 
 St. Paul's, Cheltenham, Charterhouse, and others, 
 as well as a number of the leading secondary 
 schools of (jermany and France. Mr. Amen mar- 
 ried, April 5, 18S2, Mary B. Rawson of Whitins- 
 ville, Massachusetts. He has four children : Mar- 
 garet Rawson, Elizabeth Wheeler, Rachel Perne, 
 and John Harlan Amen. 
 
 BRANCH, Oliver Erne.sto, Ex-United States 
 District Attorney for New Hampshire, Manchester, 
 was born in Madison, Lake county, Ohio, July 19, 
 1847, son of William Witter and Lucy J. (Bartram) 
 Branch. His father, who was born at Aurelius, 
 Cayuga county. New York, August 31, 1S04, was a 
 lawyer, and one of the Judges of the Court of Com- 
 mon Pleas for Lake county. He obtained the char- 
 ter for the Cleveland, Plainsville & Ashtabula Rail- 
 road in 1848, and was chief promoter of the road 
 which afterwards developed into the great Lake 
 Shore System. William liranch was the eldest son 
 of Deacon William Branch of Preston, Connecticut, 
 born September 3, 1760. He was a soldier of the 
 Revolution, enli.sted in 1777, fought through the 
 war under Washington's command; was at Mon- 
 mouth, Germantown, Fort Mifflin, and Yorktown ; 
 wintered at Valley Forge ; was one of Major 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 83 
 
 Andre's guards during his trial, and helped take 
 him down from the gallows. On the disbanding of 
 the army, he received a "badge of merit " for six 
 years' service, signed by Washington. He was the 
 son of Samuel Branch of Preston, Connecticut, 
 born September 3, 1701, who was the son of Peter 
 Branch, one of the founders of Preston, Connecticut, 
 born at Marshfield, Massachusetts, 1G59. '^''"^' '-^'^'^'-^ 
 at Preston, December 27, 17 13. John fSranch of 
 Scituate, Massachusetts, father of Peter, was born 
 in Holden, England, 162S. He was the son of 
 Peter Branch of that place, a carpenter, who sailed 
 for America, with his son, in the ship " C'astle," in 
 1638, and who died on the voyage. The bo)-, 
 afterwards known as "John Branch of Scituate," 
 married Mary Speed of Marshfield, in 1652. Peter 
 Branch of f^reston married Hannah Lincoln, in 
 1684. She was the daughter of Thomas and Mary 
 (Austin) Lincoln, and granddaughter of Thomas 
 Lincoln, the miller who built and owned the mill at 
 Taunton, Massachusetts, in which the three com- 
 missioners from Boston met King Philip, in April, 
 1G81, to ask for an explanation of his hostile acts. 
 Lucy J. (Bartram) Branch, mother of the subject of 
 this sketch, was the daughter of Uriah and Re- 
 becca (\\'illiams) Bartram, She was born at Fair- 
 field, Huntington countv, Connecticut, May 25, 
 1816, and died at Madison, (Jhio, May 17, 1S97. 
 She was the granddaughter of Daniel and Ann 
 (Merchant) fiartram of Reading, Connecticut. 
 Daniel Bartram was born at Reading, October 2:;, 
 1745; and Ann Merchant at Fairfield, in 1769. 
 Daniel ]iartram was a soldier of the Revolution, 
 and was the son of Daniel fSartram of Fairfield, 
 who was born in 1702, and moved to Reading in 
 1733. He was the son of John liartram of Fair- 
 field, who was the son of John Bartram of the 
 same place. Ann Merchant was the daughter of 
 Elinor (Chauncey) Merchant, who was a descen- 
 dant of f srael Chauncey of New Haven, son of the 
 Reverend Charles Chauncey, the second President 
 of Harvard College. On the paternal side, the 
 lineage of Oliver E. Branch includes, besides the 
 families mentioned. Lamb, Witter, Tracy, ^^'heeler, 
 Williams, Wolcott, and Parke ; and on the maternal 
 side, besides those mentioned, I^ichmond, Gilbert, 
 Chapin, Griswold, and Williams. Mr. firanch 
 attended the public schools of Madison, Madison 
 Seminary, and Whitestown Seminary, at Whites- 
 borough, New York. He entered Hamilton Col- 
 lege in September, 1869, being graduated June 25, 
 1873. Upon leaving college, he was Principal of 
 
 Forest\'ille Free Academy and Ihiion School, at 
 Forestville, New York, for two years. He entered 
 Columbia College Law School in Septenrber, 1875, 
 and was graduated in May, 1877. He was Instruc- 
 tor in Latin and Flistor\- in the ]irookl\'n Polytech- 
 nic and Collegiate Institute, at Brooklyn, from 
 September, 1S76, to June, 1S77. He received the 
 degree of A. M. from Hamilton in 1876, and from 
 Dartmouth in 1896. Mr. Branch was admitted to 
 the Bar, in New \'ork, in June, 1877, and in New 
 Ilaiupshirein June, 18S4. He began the practice 
 of law in New York, with his brotiier, in the fall of 
 1S77, and remained there until 1883, when he 
 moved to New Hampshire, and engaged in literary 
 
 O. E. r.RANCH. 
 
 work in Weare. He was elected in 1887 to the 
 New Hampshire Legislature, and took a leading 
 part in the famous railroad fight of that session, 
 and was re-elected in i889,wlren he was the Demo- 
 cratic candidate for Speaker. Since 1S89 he has 
 been in acti\'e practice in Manchester, New Hamp- 
 shire, removing there from Weare, in 1894. He 
 has been counsel for the Boston i.\: Maine Railroad 
 and all important litigation for the last ten years. 
 Among the many suits in which he has been 
 engaged were the quo warranto proceedings brought 
 by Harr\- Bingham et als. in 1891, vs. S. S. |ewett. 
 Clerk of the House of Representati\'es of New 
 Hampshire, for the control of the organization of 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 the Legislature ; the suit bi'DUght by tlie Manches- 
 ter l\: Lawrence Raihoad \s. the Concord Railroad 
 corporation, growing out of the operation of the 
 Lawrence Railroad by the Concord, from 1856 to 
 1SS7 ; the protracted litigation between the ]!oston 
 & Maine and the Concord & Montreal Railroad, 
 prior to the consolidation of the two systems ; in 
 the suit of Pike \s. the New Hampshire Trust 
 Company, invoKing the lease of the land on which 
 the Kennard building, in Manchester, was erected. 
 He was leading counsel for the Manchester lv Law- 
 rence road in the suit brought to recover claims of 
 the state amounting to six hundred and fifty thou- 
 sand dollars. He has made a special practice of 
 corporation law, and has a large corporation client- 
 age. Mr. liranch was appointed LInited States 
 District Attorney for the District of New Hamp- 
 shire, by President Cle\eland, INLirch 15, 1894, and 
 held the office four years. He was Moderator for 
 the town of \\'eare from 1884 to 1892. He is 
 \'ice-President of the New England Association 
 of the Hamilton College Alumni, and of the New 
 England Association of the Delta Upsilon Frater- 
 nity. He is also a member of the Phi I>eta l-iappa 
 Society, and of the Delta Upsilon, of Hamilton 
 College. He has always been a Democrat, and 
 has taken an active part on. the stump in every 
 campaign since the presidential election in 1868. 
 He was permanent Chairman of the Democratic 
 State Convention, of New Hampshire, in 1S92. 
 Mr. Branch married at \\'eare, October 17, 1S7S, 
 Sarah M. Chase. They have four children : ( )liver 
 Winslow, Dorothy ^^'itter, Frederick ^^■illiam, and 
 Randolph \\'ellington JSranch. 
 
 CHENE^', I^ERSON Coi.iiv, E.\-Governor, ¥.x- 
 Senator, and F.\-Minister to Switzerland, Manches- 
 ter, was born in fiolderness. New Hampshire, Feb- 
 ruar)- 35, 1828, son of Afoses Cheney, a well known 
 paper manufacturer. He comes of good old New 
 England stock. Mr. Cheney attended the acade- 
 mies at Peterborough and Hancock, New Hamp- 
 shire, and Parsonfield, Maine. He early became 
 acquainted with the details of the paper business, 
 and in 1S47 assumed the management of the paper 
 mill at Peterborough. In 1854 he became a mem- 
 ber of the firm of Cheney, Hadley & Gowing. He 
 removed to ^L^nchester in 1866, becoming a dealer 
 in paper stock and manufacturers' supplies, and 
 also engaged in the paper manufacture at Goff.s- 
 town. New Hampshire, as a member of the firm of 
 Cheney & Thorpe. lie is now at the head of the 
 
 P. C\ Chene}' Company. Mr. Cheney early became 
 interested in politics, and represented the town of 
 Peterborough in the Legislature in i853-'54. He 
 entered ardently into the events of i86o-'6i and 
 zealously aided and promoted the preparation of 
 
 p. C. CHENEY. 
 
 the State for the struggle to maintain the Union. 
 In due time he offered his personal services, and 
 in August, 1SG2, was appointed Quartermaster of 
 the Thirteenth Regiment, Colonel A. F. Stevens. 
 Mr. Cheney was taken seriously ill in January, 
 1863, and after three months' sickness was com- 
 pelled to resign, but he sent a substitute to the ser- 
 vice. He was a Railroad Commissioner for three 
 years. Shortly after removing to Manchester, he 
 became prominent in the Republican party, and 
 was elected Mayor of the city in 1872, one of the 
 marked features of his successful administration 
 being the introduction of the fire alarm telegraph 
 system. He declined a renomination as Mayor, 
 but was elected Governor, i875-'76. Governor 
 Cheney was appointed LInited States Senator in the 
 fall of 1S86, to fill the unexpired term of Austin 
 F. Pike, and in 1888 he was one of the delegates at 
 large to the Republican National Convention. He 
 was chosen a member of the Republican National 
 Committee to succeed the Hon. E. li. Rollins, was 
 re-elected in 1892 and still holds the position. In 
 December, 1892, President Flarrison appointed him 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 8S 
 
 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary 
 to Switzerland, which post he held until June 29, 
 1893. Mr. Cheney was one of the Directors of the 
 Peterborough Pjank at the time he remo\'ed to Man- 
 chester, and has been President of the Peoples' 
 Savings Bank of Manchester since its organization 
 in 1S74. He is a member of the Altemont Lodge, 
 Free' and Accepted Masons; of Peterborough 
 Chapter, No. [2, Royal Arch Masons; of Peterbor- 
 ough Lodge, No. 15, Lidependent Order of Odd 
 Fellows; of Louis Pell Post, (irand Army of the 
 Republic; of the Massachusetts Loyal Legion, and 
 of the Army of the I^otomac. Li 1872 he was 
 elected a Trustee of Pates College, and founded a 
 scholarship in that institution. At the close of his 
 gubernatorial service, Dartmouth (.'ollege conferred 
 upon him the degree of A. M. Although he has 
 always been a liberal contributor to many religious 
 organizations, his membership is with the Unitarian 
 Society. Mr. Cheney married May 22, 1S50, S. 
 Anna, daughter of Samuel Aforrison Moore of liron- 
 son, Michigan, who died January 7, 185S. He 
 married June 29, 1859, Mrs. Sarah (White) Keith, 
 daughter of Jonathan White, one of the earliest 
 manufacturers of Lowell. Mrs. Cheney has been a 
 leader in Manchester's society for years, and both 
 her public and pri\'ate charities are numerous. For 
 twenty years she has been President of the 
 Women's Aid and Relief Society of Manchester. 
 Governor Cheney has one child, Agnes Anna, born 
 October 22, 1869, now the wife of Charles H. Fish, 
 Agent of the Cocheco ALanufacturing Company of 
 Dover, New Hampshire. His grandchildren are, 
 Sarah Cheney Fish, born May 10, 1889; Mary 
 Jarvis Fish, born June 2°^ 1890, and Agnes Cheney 
 Fish, born January 30, 1S97. 
 
 EzVULKNER, Francis Chii.h, Lawyer, Keene, 
 was born in Keene, November 23, 1852, son of 
 Francis Augustus and Caroline (Handerson) Faulk- 
 ner. He is descended, in the eighth generation, 
 from Edward P'aulkner, who came from Kingsclere, 
 England, and purchased the town of Andover from 
 the Indians about 1643, ''^•'"^1 ^'•'^^ °"s o^ 'h*^ two 
 founders of the church there in 1645. Edmund's 
 son, Francis, married Abigail 1 )ane of Andover, 
 who was tried, and condemned to death, as a witch. 
 His son, Anmiruhanmah, moved to Acton, Massa- 
 chusetts, in 1735, and bought the Faulkner home- 
 stead, which still stands near the South Acton 
 railroad station. He built the mills there, and 
 
 was a clothier. His son, Francis, was a Colonel in 
 the Revolutionary War; and his grandson, Francis, 
 was a manufacturer who, mo\'ing to North J^illerica 
 in i8i I, founded the l''aulkner Mills, which are 
 still operated. The fourth h'rancis was a manufac- 
 turer at Acton, and, moving to Keene in 181 7, 
 began the manufacture of woolens, forming, with 
 Josiah Colony, tlie firm of l''aulkner & Colony. 
 This business is still carried on by members of 
 both families. His son, Francis A., lived in 
 Iveene, and was a law)'er in active practice from 
 1849 i-iiitil lii-'^ death, in 1879. '-'"^'^ subject of this 
 sketch received his edncatii_>n in tlie schools of 
 Keene, and at I^hillips K.xeter Academy, and was 
 graduated from I-Iarvard College in 1S74. He was 
 admitted to the liar in August, 1877, and has 
 practiced in Keene ever since that time. He 
 served as Judge Advocate General on the Staff of 
 Governor Pell in 1881, was a member of the Legis- 
 lature in 1889, has been President of the Poard of 
 Education for the last si.\ years, and was a member 
 of the (io\'ernor's Council for the Third District in 
 i895-'96. hi politics he has alwa)'s been a l\.e- 
 
 FRANCIS C. FAULKNER. 
 
 publican. Mr. Faulkner was married, June 30, 
 1880, to Martha Parrett Ripley; they have three 
 children: Francis Ijarrett, born July 13, 1881 ; 
 Philip Handerson, born May 30, 1883, and I-Catha- 
 rine Ripley P'aulkner, l_iorn January 30, 1S89. 
 
86 
 
 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 CHRISTIP], Morris, Physician, Antrim, was 
 born in tliat town, August 29, 1S3J, son of Josiah 
 ^^'arren and Mavy (liell) Cliristie. He comes of 
 Scotch-Irish stock. He recei\'ed an academical 
 traininij- in this state. He attended the I'niversitv 
 
 iMORRIS CHRISTIE. 
 
 of New York, and was graduated in March, 18^9. 
 For nearly a year after graduation he was Assistant 
 Physician in a charity hospital in New York. May 
 I, 1S60, he remo\'ed to his native town, where he 
 has since remained. He has taken a keen interest 
 in the educational affairs of tlie town, and has 
 been Superintendent of the Schools, and later a 
 member of the School Poard. He is a member of 
 the Poard of Water Commissioners of the precinct, 
 and a 'Prustee of the 'Pown Library. He married 
 July 22, 1863. Susan S. Hill of Johnson, \'ermont. 
 
 CL'RRIER, Fr.axk Dunki.kk, Lawyer, ("anaan, 
 was born in that town, October 30, iSi:;^, son of 
 Horace S. and Emma 0. (Plastridge) Currier. His 
 paternal grandfather was Nathaniel Currier, and 
 his maternal grandfather Caleb Plastridge, M. 1)., 
 of East Lebanon. Mr. Currier was educated in 
 the common schools and at the academy in his 
 native town, in the Concord (New Hampshire) 
 High School, in Kimball Academy, at Meriden, 
 New Hampshire, and at Doctor Hixon's school 
 in Lowell, ^Plssachusetts. Pie studied law, was 
 
 admitted to the Par in November, 1875, at Pl}*- 
 mouth, and the following year began practice in 
 Canaan. He was a member of the Legislature in 
 1879, Clerk of the State Senate in 18S3 and 1885, 
 and President of the latter body in 1887. He was 
 a Delegate to the Republican National Convention 
 in 1884, and Secretary of the Republican State 
 Committee from 1882 to 1888, inclusive. In i8go- 
 '94 he was Naval Officer of Customs at the Port of 
 Poston. Mr. Currier is a Mason, a member of 
 Social Lodge of Enfield, of St. Andrew's Chapter 
 at Lebanon, and of Sullivan Comraandeiy at Clare- 
 mont. New Hampshire. He also belongs to Mt. 
 Cardigan Lodge, Knights of Pythias, at Canaan, 
 
 and is a member of the Massachusetts Club. He 
 has been very active in politics, and in the cam- 
 paigns of 1888, 1892, 1S94, and i8g6, took the 
 stump for weeks in the interests of his party. Mr. 
 Currier was married. May 31, 1890, to Adelaide 
 Rollins Sargent. 
 
 FOWLER, Edwin Horatio, Architect and Chief 
 Draughtsman of the United States Coast and Geo- 
 detic Survey, Washington, District of Columbia, was 
 born in South Newbury, New Hampshire, October 
 20, 1856, .son of George Franklin and Mahala 
 Jane (Messer) Fowler. He traces his descent in 
 the paternal line from Philip Fowler, who came 
 
MKN OK PROGRKSS. 
 
 87 
 
 over from England in the Mary and John in 1634. 
 The line being, Philip, who married Mary Norton; 
 Joseph, married Martha Kimball; Joseph, married 
 Klizabeth Hutton ; Joseph, married Susannah Den- 
 nis ; Richard, married Ruth Chever ; Joshua C'hever, 
 married Lydia Stearns ; 'Phomas, married Betsey 
 Stiles, and George Franklin, married Mahala Jane 
 Messer, Mr. P'owler recei\'ed his early etlucation 
 in the common schools of Bradford and Washing- 
 ton, New Hampshire. He attended 'Pnbbs Union 
 Academy of Washington, and the New Hampshire 
 Conference Seminary at 'Pilton, New Hampshire. 
 He was a graduate from the Chandler Scientiric 
 Department of Dartmouth College in 187S; he was 
 early in life ambitious to become a Ci\il P^ngineer, 
 and he had a thoraugh education in his father's 
 machine shops in the use of machinery for both 
 wood and iron work, in which he found it of great 
 service in all his undertakings. In his college 
 course, his studies brought out the specialty of 
 depot and bridge construction, and this led him into 
 the study of architecture, which he has continued 
 both in the study and practice to the present time. 
 
 EDWIN H. FOWLER. 
 
 some of the finest houses in the city of Washington 
 having been erected from his plans. In 1879 after 
 a competition of nearl}' a year, he was appointed a 
 topographical draughtsman in the Plnited States 
 Coast Geodetic Survey, and in a continuous compe- 
 
 tition has ad\-anced step by step, until in 1897 he 
 was made Chief Draughtsman of the Lhiited States 
 Coast Geodetic Survey, a position created for him. 
 In 1895 and 1896 he was Assistant Professor in 
 Columbia Plniversity, giving instruction in topo- 
 graphical drawing and lectures on architectural 
 topography. He is a member of the Eta P^ta 
 Chapter and \\'ashington Chapter of the Sigma 
 Chi Fraternity, the National (Geographic Society, 
 the P.ast Washington Citizens' Association, in 
 which he was Chairman of one of i's most im- 
 portant committees, as well as a member of vari- 
 ous fraternal societies. Mr. P'owler was mar- 
 ried November 2, 1882, to Martha Jane Crockett, 
 daughter of Arthur Crockett of Sanbornton, New 
 Plampshire. 
 
 HALL, Daniel, Lawyer, Dover, was born in 
 liarrington. New Hampshire, February 28, 1832, 
 son of Gilman and P^liza (Tuttle) Hall. On the 
 paternal side he is descended from John Hall, who 
 came to Dover in 1649, and who was the iir.st Dea- 
 con of the First Church established in New Hamp- 
 shire. He was a farmer. Surveyor of Lands, Town 
 Clerk, and 'Prial Justice. On the maternal side Mr. 
 Hall traces his descent from |ohn Tuttle, a resi- 
 dent of Do\er, and Judge of the Superior Court for 
 many years prior to 1700. Ciilman Hall, father of 
 the subject of this sketch, was in the fifth genera- 
 tion in direct lineal descent from John Hall. 
 Daniel Hall attended the common schools at Bar- 
 rington, the Strafl'ord Academy, and the Northfield 
 Conference Seminary. He was graduated from 
 Dartmouth College in the class of 1854. In May, 
 i860, he was admitted to the .Strafford County PSar. 
 As a boy he had worked on his father's farm, and 
 a little later taught the district school. His law 
 studies were carried on in the office of the Hon. 
 Daniel M. Christie of I)o\er. INIr. Hall's life has 
 been one of activity. Pie engaged in the practice 
 of law, saw much service in the war, and was fre- 
 quently called upon in the political campaigns. He 
 «'as School Commissioner of Strafford county in 
 i8i^9-'6o, was Secretary of the Committee on Naval 
 Affairs, LInited States Senate, i86i-'62, was Cap- 
 tain in the Ihiited States Ami)- in the War of the 
 Rebellion, j862-'64; «'as Provost Marshal, Fir.st 
 District of New Hampshire, i864-'65 ; was Clerk of 
 the Supreme Judicial Court of Strafford county, 
 i865-'74; Judge of the Police Cf)urt in P)over, 
 iS68-'74, iHjG-'yj ; Chairman of the New Hamp- 
 shire Delegation to the Republican National Con- 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 ^'%'^:-. 
 
 vention at Cincinnati, 1S76 ; State Reporter of Judi- home in consequence of his father's illness and 
 cial Decisions, iS76-'77 ; Na\al C)fticer of the Port death, terminating his studies in this direction and 
 of Boston, i877-'86; Trustee of the Strafford Savings thus frustrating his lifelong ambition. He went in- 
 Bank, from 1S83 to date ; Trustee and Secretar_v of to the war while a \'ery )-oung man, enlisting in the 
 the Soldiers' Home from 1S89 to date; Department Sixteenth New Hampshire Regiment, November 8, 
 
 1S62, and served under General Banks for nine 
 months, being mustered out of service August, 1863. 
 After the war he went to Jefferson and engaged in 
 farming on the slopes of Cherr}- Mountain, and was 
 also engaged in lumbering, and buying and selling 
 horses and cattle. He has been a Selectman of 
 Jefferson and also represented that town in the Gen- 
 eral Court. In October, 1889, he removed from 
 Jefferson to \\'hitefielcl, still maintaining his farm, 
 and in the latter place has ser\-ed as County Com- 
 missioner for four years. Mi« Garland is a Direc- 
 tor of the Whitefield Bank and Trust Company, of 
 the Maine Condensed Milk Company, and one of 
 the owners of the Whitefield Manufacturing Com- 
 pany. He is an influential member and Manager 
 of the Saco Valley Lumber Compaii)', one of the 
 largest concerns operating in the state, possessing a 
 mountain railroad and conducting three stores at 
 
 DANIEL HALL. 
 
 Commander of the (hand Arm)- of the Republic, 
 i892-'93; Trustee of the Dover Public Library, 
 1895 to date ; Trustee of Berwick Academy from 
 1895 to date, and Director of the Strafford National 
 Bank from 1897 to date. He is a member of the 
 Grand Army of the Republic, of the Loyal Legion 
 of the United States, of the New Hampshire Histo- 
 rical Society, and the Bar Association of Southern 
 New Hampshire. In politics he is a Republican. 
 Mr. Hall has made many public addresses on sub- 
 jects political, military, literary, and miscellaneous. 
 A volume entitled "Occasional Addresses" was 
 published by him in 1892. He was married Janu- 
 ary 25, 1877, to Sophia Dodge of Rochester, New 
 Hampshire. 'J'hey have one son, Arthur ^\'clles- 
 le)' Hall, born August 30, 1878. 
 
 GARLAND, Benjamin CUiMmincs, Lumberman, 
 Whiteheld, was born in Jiartlett, Carroll County, 
 New Hampshire, April 12, 1845, ^o" of Alexis and 
 Nanc\- (Cunimings) Garland. He received his 
 early education in the public schools of Carroll 
 county. He began the stud)- of law, but was called 
 
 BENJAMIN C. GARLAND. 
 
 Bartlett, and one at Hart's Location. Mr. Garland 
 in politics is a Democrat. On March 11, 1869, he 
 was married to lunily Damon, of Carroll, New 
 Hampshire. They have one daughter, Emma A. 
 Garland, born Jul)- 19, 1883. 
 
MEN OF PROCURESS. 
 
 89 
 
 ELDER, Charles Bronnn, Pastor of the Unita- On October 27, 1880, he married Almira Adie 
 
 nan Church at Kecne, was born in Portland, ]!rown, of Pro\-idence, Rhode Ishrnd. Three chil- 
 
 Mame, February 16, 1856, son of Samuel and dren have been bom to them: Marion, Christine, 
 
 Sarah Smith (Kimball) Elder. He traces his and Marjorie Elder, 
 
 descent, on his mother's side, from Augustine [can, 
 
 (tILMAN, Charles Sleeper, Physician, Sun- 
 cook, was born at Lake Village, Gilford, New 
 Hampshire, October 23, 1S73, ■''O'"' ^i Noah C. and 
 Ellen Mary (Sleeper) Oilman. He is descended in 
 the paternal line from Edward Oilman, who came 
 from Norfolk county, England, in May, 1670, and 
 settled in Hingham, and from him most of the Gil- 
 mans of this section are descended. The line is 
 traced, Edward, Sr., John, John Sommerbee, Som- 
 merbee, Lieutenant John, Noah \\'., Noah C. and 
 Charles S. Oilman. ])r. Gilman attended the 
 public schools of I^ake Village and Laconia, and 
 Tilton Seminary. After graduating at Tilton Sem- 
 inary, he did reportorial work on Manchester Union 
 and New Hampshire Republican (now defunct), 
 and worked in various stores in Lakeport, to 
 get funds t(j enable a pursuance of the study of 
 medicine. He studied in the University of Ver- 
 
 CHARLES ]>.. elder. 
 
 better known as John Gustin, supposed to ha\'e 
 been a J-'rench Huguenot. His father was a 
 builder, and served on the School Committee of 
 Portland, and also as Overseer of the Poor. Mr. 
 Elder was educated in the I-'rimary, (Jrammar, and 
 High schools of his native place, graduating from 
 the latter in 1873. He entered Krown University 
 and was graduated in 1877. He then spent three 
 years at Harvard I)i\'inity School, from which he 
 was graduated in 1880. He was Pastor of the 
 Unitarian Church at Ncponset, Massachusetts, and 
 at South Boston, Massachusetts, before settling in 
 Keene, in October, 1889. During Mr. Elder's 
 ministry in Keene, a new church has been built Ijy 
 the society, with a seating capacity of five hundred. 
 The church is one of the largest Unitarian bodies 
 in the state, and is in a most prosperous condition. 
 While in South l^oston, Mr. Elder interested him- 
 self in the work of the Associated Charities, being 
 for several years President of the local branch. 
 He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity. 
 He has enjoyed two trips to Europe, visiting Eng- 
 land, Scotland, Holland, Germany, and France. 
 
 CHARLES S. OILMAN. 
 
 mont at Burlington, at Tufts College Medical 
 School at Bo.ston, and graduated from the Balti- 
 more Medical College April 22, 1896. He gained 
 practical experience in his profession at the Mary- 
 land General Pbjspital at ISaltimore, and with Dr. 
 
9° 
 
 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 ^^■. T. Sla}ton in IJoston. After taking liis degree, 
 he settled in Lakepoit, remo\"ing to Suncook in 
 February, 1S97, and taking the office of the late 
 Dr. G. H. Larrabee. He has been successful in 
 his new field and is enjoying a steadily increasing 
 practice. While in his junior year at Tufts Col- 
 lege, Dr. Gilman was editor from the Medical Col- 
 lege of the Brown and Blue, the Tufts Junior class 
 annual. Dr. Gihnan is Examining Physician for 
 the Mutual Reser\e Fund Life Association of New 
 York, and the Phcenix Mutual of Connecticut. He 
 is a member of the ^^'innipesaukee Academy of 
 Medicine, of the New Hampshire Medical Society 
 and Pembroke Grange. A member of the Gamma 
 Chapter of Alpha Ivappa Ivappa of Tufts College. 
 
 HAYES, Charles Carroll, Dealer in 1-leal Es- 
 tate and Fire Insurance Agent, Manchester, was 
 born in New London, New I-fampshire, May 31, 
 1855, son of John M. and Susan E. (Carr) Hayes. 
 In the paternal line he is of Scottish descent, and 
 in the maternal, of English. The Haves famih- 
 ha\e resided in New London for a areat number of 
 
 CHARLES C. HAN'ES. 
 
 years. Mr. Hayes attended the district schools of 
 New London and Salisbury and the High School of 
 Manchester, to which cit_\- he remo\'ed when he was 
 fourteen years old. Upon leaving the High School 
 he entered the employ of John M. Chandler & 
 
 Compan}', who conducted a general store, and re- 
 mained with them about three years. He then 
 went into business for himself, bu3'ing a grocery 
 and meat store, which he conducted for between 
 three and four years, and sold out in November, 
 1884. At that time he took up the real estate and 
 insurance business, which he has continued ever 
 since. He has been very acti\'e in promoting the 
 commercial interests of the city, and for two years 
 was President of the Manchester Board of Trade. 
 He is a Thirty-third degree Mason, has held all the 
 offices in his lodge, council, and commandery, and 
 has been Grand Master and Grand Commander of 
 the state. In politics Mr. Hayes is a Democrat. 
 He has long been a member of the Granite State 
 Club, and has served as its Treasurer and Presi- 
 dent. For man}- years he has been Treasurer of 
 the Democratic City committee. He was twice 
 given his party's nomination for Mayor of Man- 
 chester, and made a gallant fight against long odds. 
 Mr. Hayes was married January i, 1885, to Belle 
 J. Kennard, daughter of John and Hannah B, Ken- 
 nard of Manchester, who died July 31, 1890. He 
 has three children, John Carroll, Louise K. and 
 Annie lielle Hayes. 
 
 HILDRETH, David Merrill, Draughtsman of 
 the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, in 
 ^^'ashington, District of Columbia, was born in 
 Haverhill, New Hampshire, January 15, 1862, son 
 of Sylvester Lyman and Teressa Verona (Nelson) 
 Hildreth, In the paternal line he is descended 
 from Richard Hildreth, the line being: Richard, 
 Joseph, Ephraim, Simeon, Ephraim, Simeon, and 
 Syhester Hildreth, who came from England about 
 1635, '^ncl settled first in Cambridge and afterwards 
 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Simeon (first) set- 
 tled in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, in 1758. 
 Ephraim (second) was a soldier in the Revolution- 
 ary \\'ar, and took an active part in the Battle of 
 Saratoga and in the capture of Burgoyne. He, 
 with his son, the grandfather of the subject of this 
 sketch, settled in Haverhill about 1810. In the 
 maternal line he is descended from Thomas and 
 Joan Nelson, who came from Yorkshire, England, 
 in 1638, with Reverend Ezekiel Rogers, and set- 
 tled in Rowley, Massachusetts. The line in this 
 case being: Thomas, Philip, Joseph, Joseph, Ste- 
 phen, Jonathan, and Teressa Nelson. Stephen 
 settled in Salisbury, New Hampshire, in 1773. 
 Mr. Hildreth attended the common schools and 
 Haverhill Academy, from which he was graduated 
 
MEN OF PROCJRKSS, 
 
 91 
 
 in the class of 18S3. He took the degree of H. S. going into law or business. Mr. Hildreth is a 
 from Dartmouth in the class of 1S87, and received member of the Beta Theta Pi, a College Greek 
 the degree of M. S. from Dartmouth in 1894. His Letter Fraternity, and of the Association of Ameri- 
 early life was spent on a farm, and he taught can Draughtsmen. Fie is a J-lepublican and has 
 school to secure the means to attend the academy taken an acti\'e interest in New Hampshire affairs, 
 
 and maintains a legal residence in Hanover, going 
 there to vote. ( )n January i, 18S9, he was married 
 to Cleora Helena, daughter of N'ernaus and Fouisa 
 (Thompson) DeCoster of JJucktield, Maine. Among 
 her ancestors are Francis Cook of the Mayflower, 
 and John 'Fhomson, who came to I-'lymouth in 1622. 
 They have one child: Ruth Cleora Hildreth, born 
 October 13, 1S92. 
 
 DAVlIl M. HILDRETH. 
 
 and college. He studied for the profession of a 
 civil engineer, and after leaving college he was 
 with the late Professor E. 'F. Quimby about a year, 
 on the New Hampshire and Massachusetts Bound- 
 ary Survey. Besides doing held work, he executed 
 the maps of that survey. 'Fhen for a time he was 
 with the Putnam Machine Company of P'itchburg, 
 Massachusetts. He went to \A'ashington and took 
 the Civil Ser\'ice Examination in October, 1888, 
 for a position as Draughtsman (Cartographical) in 
 the LTnited States Coast and Geodetic Survey, this 
 being the first examination held after this Bmeau 
 was put under the United States Civil Service. 
 He was successful and recei\'ecl the appointment a 
 month later, November t,o, 1888. This position he 
 has held ever since. In addition to the work of 
 this department, he studied law, being graduated 
 from the National FTniversity Law School in 1895. 
 He took the degree of LL. M. from the Columbian 
 FTniversity Law School in 1896, and was admitted 
 to the liar of the Supreme Court of the District of 
 Columbia July ^ of that year. It is his intention 
 in later years to return to New Hampshire, either 
 
 HFRSE\', Frkii E., Fumber Merchant, WolF 
 boro, was born in that town, September 23, 1862, 
 son of Winthrop I), and Georgiana (Guptill) Hersey. 
 His father was a son of Jonathan Hersey who set- 
 tled in Wolfboro about 1785, where Winthrop D. 
 Hersey was born. His mother was a daughter of 
 Abram Guptill of Berwick, Maine. 'Fhe subject of 
 this sketch was educated in the public schools of 
 his nati\'e jalace. After leaving school he became 
 
 FRliJ) Iv MERSE\'. 
 
 an employee in a shoe factory, and later engaged 
 in the lumber business in Wolfboro, in partnership 
 with Frank E. Hersey, under the firm name of 
 Hersey Brothers. In 1882 they bought the water 
 mill at Wolfboro Falls and ran it until 1895, when 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 they sold it and built n steam plant on Rocky 
 Point, between the old mill and W'olfboro proper. 
 This latter mill is still in operation, making" general 
 building material. Mr. Hersey was elected one of 
 the Selectmen of \\'olfboro, in 1892, and since 
 1894 has been Chairman of the board of Selectmen. 
 He was pre\aous to his being Selectman for four 
 \ears Super\isor of the checklist of the town. In 
 politics he is a Republican and is acti\'e in the in- 
 terests of the part}'. He is a member of Morning 
 Star Lodge, No. 17, h'ree and Accepted Masons. 
 Mr. Herse\' was married Januar\- i. 1S90, to Anna 
 M., daughter of Edward Macdonald of Boston, 
 'i'hev have one daughter: Etta M. Hersey, born 
 August 31, 1 897. 
 
 MINER, Er.\ncis H\Ni\ii;.\l, Physician, Wash- 
 ington. District of Columbia, was born in Philadel- 
 phia, Pennsylvania, July 14, 1864, son of John 
 Hannibal and Mar}' Thomas (Jacobs) Miner, ( )n 
 the paternal side he is of Ei'ench-CIennan descent, 
 and on the maternal of Scotch-Gernian. Although 
 a nati\'e of Penns\'l\'ania, and now a resident of 
 
 FR.VNCIS H. MINER. 
 
 Washington, a ver\' large share of Doctor Miner's 
 life has been spent in this state. His early educa- 
 tion was gained in the public schools of Philadel- 
 phia, and in 1877 he began his career as a printer 
 in the office of Henry C Coates of that city. He 
 
 remo^'ed to Concord, this state, some years later, 
 and went to work as compositor in the office of the 
 Monitor and Statesman in 18S6. Three years 
 later he became Foreman in the news room of the 
 People and Patriot. This position he resigned to 
 accept the Foremanship of the news room of the 
 Monitor and Statesman, March 25, 1890. About 
 two \'ears later he began the study of medicine with 
 Dr. Clark of Concord. In October, 1892, he went 
 to \\'ashington, completing the regular course in 
 medicine in the Georgetown Medical College, being 
 graduated in May, 1895. Since that time he has 
 been successfully engaged in private practice in 
 Washington. He ' is Vice-President of the Wash- 
 ington Medical and Surgical Society. In politics. 
 Doctor Miner is a Republican. He is unmarried. 
 
 JEM'ELL, David Lyman, Agent of the Three 
 Corporations, Suncook, was born in Tamworth, 
 New Hampshire, January 26, 1837, son of Brad- 
 bur)' and Lucinda (Chapman) Jewell. His great- 
 grandfather, Mark Jewell, was born in England in 
 1724, came to this countr}- in 1743, settling in Dur- 
 ham, and died in Sandwich, February 19, 1787. 
 His eldest son, Mark, was the first white man to 
 settle in Tamworth, in 1772. He was called 
 "Priest" and "Elder" Jewell. He married Ruth 
 Yittum and they had sixteen children, one of whom, 
 Bradbury, was the grandfather of the subject of this 
 sketch. When the latter was about two years of 
 age, his parents removed to Newmarket, and his 
 father dying there, his mother again removed to 
 Newton Ilpper Falls, Massachusetts. Here he 
 attended the common schools and Wilbraham 
 Academy, and later entered the State Normal 
 School at Ijridgewater, Massachusetts, from which 
 he was graduated in February, 1855. He taught 
 school in \^'estheld, New Jersey, at Freehold (New 
 Jersey) Academy, and in Barstow's private school, 
 Newton, Massachusetts. He studied engineering 
 with R. Morris Copeland and Charles PL Folsoni 
 in Boston, but ga\'e up practicing his profession 
 when the war broke out. \\'hile at Newton he 
 was draughtsman for the mills at Suncook and 
 Pembroke, New Hampshire, and in 1868 removed 
 to the former place as Superintendent of the mills. 
 LTpon the death of the Agent, he was given charge, 
 and when the China mill was started he took the 
 same position there, and since 1870 has been 
 Agent of the three corporations. He is a member 
 of the New England Cotton Manufacturers' Asso- 
 ciation and of the Norfolk (Massachusetts) Club. 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 93 
 
 He was Aide-cle-Camp with the rank of Colonel on schools, and was ritted for I-Tar\'ard. He did not 
 Governor Head's Stall, and is a member of the enter college, howc\-er, and instead of remaining at 
 Ancient and Honorable Artillery Compan)' of ]!os- his books, enlisted in tlie Union Army, at the age 
 
 ton. He is a Thirty-second degree Mason, a mem- 
 ber of Jewell Lodge, Suncook, which was named for 
 
 DAVIIJ L. J K WELL. 
 
 him; of Trinity Chapter ; Horace Chase Conncil ; 
 Mt. Horeb Commandery ; Boston Lodge of l^er- 
 fection ; Giles F Yates Council; Frinces of Jeru- 
 salem; Mt. Olivet Chapter, I^ose Croi.x ; Massa- 
 chusetts Consistor)-, and Aleppo Temple, Ancient 
 Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. In 
 August, i860, Mr. Jewell married Mar\- A., daugh- 
 ter of Ephraim Grocer of Newton, Massachusetts, 
 who died October j6, 1S62. He married. May 31, 
 1 86 s, i'''ll'"i Louise, daughter of Lewis Sumner of 
 Needham, Mas.sachusetts. 
 
 of sixteen. He served as jjrix'ate in the Fifth 
 Massachusetts Regiment, during the war. At its 
 close he studied law and was admitted to the Mas- 
 sachusetts Far, j\fa)- 8, 1868, and the New Hamp- 
 shire Far, y\pril, 187S. He pi'acticed his profes- 
 sion «'ith success in Foston, \\'ashington, and Con- 
 cord. In 1882, he ga\'e up law for ne\vs|3aper 
 work. For several )-ears he was connected with 
 the New York Herald and Foston Glol)e. In 1S88, 
 he became Editor of the Fortsmouth 'Fimes, and its 
 weekl)- edition. The .States and Union. In 1893, he 
 purchased the plant, and has since then gi\'en it 
 his undivicletl attention, making the paper of wide 
 circulation and of gi-eat influence in the state. He 
 was elected a member of the (ioxernor's Council in 
 1892, resigning the position a year later to accept 
 the position of Collector of Customs f<)r the Dis- 
 trict of New Hampshire under Fresident Clex'cland, 
 a position he held four j'ears and four months. In 
 politics he has always been a Democrat. In 1896, 
 
 ■rRUE L. NCIRKIS. 
 
 NORRIS, True Livinoston, Editor of the 
 Times, Fortsmouth, was born in Manchester, New 
 Hampshire, May 4, 1S48, son of Arthur E. L. and 
 Olive \V. (Wallace) Norris. For more than two 
 and one-half centuries the Norris family has been 
 prominent in the social, political and business life he was chosen the New Hampshire member of the 
 of New Hampshire, several of the ancestors of the Democratic National Committee, and still holds 
 subject of this sketch serving in the French and the position. He is also a member of the state, 
 Indian Wars, the War of the Revolution, and the county, cit)', and ward Democratic committees. 
 War of 1812. Mr. Norris attended the public From his liojhood he has taken a very lively inter- 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 est in political affairs. Mr. Norris is a Mason, and 
 Odd Fellow, an Klk, and a member of the Grand 
 Arm}-. He \vas married May 20. iSQo.to Lilian (!. 
 Hurst, of Eliot, Maine. 
 
 MARTIN, N.\TH.\NIEL Everett, Lawyer, Con- 
 cord, was born in Loudon, New Hampshire, Au- 
 gust 9, 1S55, son of Theophilus B. and Sarah L. 
 
 NA-rH.'VNIEL E. M.\RTIN. 
 
 (Rowell) Martin. He was educated in the common 
 schools of Loudon and Concord, and later studied 
 law in the office of Sar^-ent & Chase in Concord. 
 He was admitted to the Bar August 14, 1879. 
 Since May, 18S5, he has been a partner of John 
 H. Albin. He was Solicitor of Merrimack county 
 from July i, iSS7,to July i, 1889. Mr. Martin 
 takes an acti\-e interest in agricultural pursuits, 
 particularly in .stock breeding. He is extensively 
 engaged in real estate and other business opera- 
 tions. 
 
 NASON, WILLI.4M Francis, Lawj-er, Dover, was 
 born in Sanford, Maine, November 22, 1857, son of 
 Joseph T. and Susan (Frost) Nason. His father 
 was interested in educational matters, was Princi- 
 pal of several leading schools, and later in life 
 engaged in na\-igation, being master of vessels in 
 the foreign trade. His grandfather, Daniel Nason, 
 was a shipbuilder and owner. William F. Nason 
 
 attended schools in South Berwick and ICennebunk, 
 Maine, being graduated from the High School of 
 the latter place, where for two \ears he studied law, 
 subsequentlv continuing his legal studies with Huel 
 C. Carter of \^'olfboro, New Hampshire. Being 
 admitted to the Bar in 1S79, he renio\'ecl to Dover, 
 and formed a law partnership with Mr. Carter. 
 He was chosen City Solicitor in r883 and again in 
 18S4, ser\ing in all se\en years in that capacity. 
 He was a member of the legislature in iSSy-'SS, 
 serving on the Judiciary Committee and as Chair- 
 man of the Committee on Flections, taking an 
 active part in the work of the House, and winning 
 a reputation as an able debater. In 1892, he was 
 elected County Solicitor b}- a flattering majority. 
 
 WILLIAM F. NASON. 
 
 and in 1S94 and again in 1896 was re-elected. In 
 1895, he was nominated for Mayor of Dover, and 
 elected without opposition, receiving in 1896, a 
 re-election to the ofiice. Mr. Nason enjoys great 
 popularity with his fellow citizens, and has very 
 successfully administered the public trusts placed 
 in his hands. 
 
 PAGE, Samuel Berkley, Lawyer, Woodsville, 
 was born in Littleton, New Hampshire, June 23, 
 1838, son of Jienjamin and Elizabeth (Berkley) 
 Page. In the paternal line he is of English stock, 
 and on the maternal of Scotch. He received his 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 95 
 
 early education at the Kingston (New Hampsliiie), 
 L^mdon (\'emiont), and Mclndoes Falls (\'ermont) 
 Academies. He studied law at the Albany Law 
 School, from which he was g-raduated in April, 
 1861, at which time he was admitted to the Bar. 
 Previous to his studies at Alban\- he had read law 
 at the office of Woods i\: Jiinghams, Littleton, from 
 iS57-'6o. He began the practice of his profession 
 in Warren, New Hampshire, in August, 1S61, but 
 in 187 I remo\'ed to Concord. Seven )'ears later he 
 remo\-ed to \\'oods\'ille, where he has since resided. 
 In 1 868, he received the honorary degree of A. M. 
 from Dartmouth College. Ur. I'age has held many 
 town offices. He was Trustee of the State Normal 
 School for eight years ; a member of the Constitu- 
 tional Convention of 1876 ; a member of the House 
 of Representatives in i864-'65-'06-'67-'68-'69-'7o-'83- 
 '85-'87-'9i-'93 ; Chairman of the Democratic State 
 Committee in iS75-'76 ; and is now President of 
 the New Hampshire Legislative Association. He 
 is a member of the lienevolent and Protective 
 Order of Elks, P. F. R.; of the Knights of Pythias, 
 G. L G.; of the Independent ( )rder of Odd Fel- 
 
 SAMUEL l;. P.-VCK. 
 
 lows, p. (j. W.; Patriarchs Militant, Lieutenant 
 Colonel; of the Independent Order of Foresters, 
 and Red Men; is a Knights Templar, a Thirty- 
 second degree Mason, and is connected with other 
 societies. In politics he has always been a Demo- 
 
 crat, and an acti\e one. He has participated in 
 council and upon the platform since 1863. During 
 all that time, he has been a member of the State 
 Committee, and has declared the faith in nearly 
 e\'ery town in New Flampshire, as well as cam- 
 paigning in Vermont and Maine. Mr. Page is an 
 ardent Episcopalian and for many years and now 
 a member of the Diocesan convention. Mr. Page 
 married in August, i860, Martha C. Lang of PSath, 
 now deceased. ( )f his six children, only one sur- 
 vives, Martha Sophia Page. 
 
 PLUMMER, Charles Henry, Agent of the 
 Great P'alls Manufacturing Company, was born in 
 Somersworth, New Hampshire, April 23, 1842, son 
 of Eri (;., and Elizabeth (Kincaid) Plummer. He 
 is of good old New England stock, being descended 
 from Revolutionary heroes. He attended the com- 
 mon schools and grammar school of his native 
 town. At an early age he began to gain practical 
 experience in manufacturing, and soon made him- 
 self master of every detail of importance in regard 
 to the manufacture of cotton goods. He rose step 
 by step from the position of bobbin boy to that of 
 agent for the corporation. The Great Falls Manu- 
 facturing Company, in whose administration Mr. 
 Plummer bears so important a part, was organized 
 June II, 1823, with a charter capital of a half mil- 
 lion dollars. It obtained the privileges of Great 
 Falls as well as those on both sides of the Salmon 
 Falls River, by purchase from Isaac \\'enclell of 
 Dover, who had built some buildings for the manu- 
 facture of cloth on land opposite the present rail- 
 road station. In 1S24 what is now the upper sec- 
 tion of Mill No. 1 was built, and the next year 
 the manufacture of woolen goods and carpets was 
 started in a building standing near b)-. This branch 
 of the company's manufactures was stopped in 1834. 
 In 1826 the capital was increased to one million 
 dollars, and in 1827 it was brought up to one mil- 
 lion, h\-e hundred thousand dollars, the present nomi- 
 nal capital. In 1S35 a new dam was built nearly 
 o]3posite the present cloth room. In the same year 
 a dam at Mast Point on the Salmon Falls was built 
 and the storage at Milton was increased. Additions 
 to the reservoirs were made in 1841, by the pur- 
 chase of Cook's and Lovell's Ponds, and in 185 1 
 by the purchase of Home's and Wilson's Ponds, 
 and later the Great East Pond, thus giving the 
 company one of the finest water privileges in the 
 state with a Howage of more than five thousand 
 acres. In 1842 the southerly section of Mill No. 3 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 was built, in 1S43 tlie northeiiv section, and in 
 1S53 tlie middle section of the same mill was con- 
 structed, while in 1S71 the three were consolidated 
 and a complete set of new machinery and turbine 
 wheels was supplied. Inipro\-ements had been 
 made in the power, a one hundred and eight}' 
 horse-power engine liaving been added, which was 
 replaced in iSyj b\- a four liundred and lil\\' horse- 
 power Corliss engine for reser\e power. In 1S94 
 and 1895 the total horse power was increased to 
 five thousand, b_\' tweh'e himdred horse power 
 being steam in case of low water. In 1S69 the 
 present No. - mill was farmed b)- the consolidation 
 of old buildings, and this was furnished with new 
 
 mander)-. Knights Templar ; of the Blue Lodge, 
 Lewiston, Maine, and the chapter of Somersworth. 
 In politics he is a Ivepublican. He married July 5, 
 1 868, Martha A, GuptiU, He has one son, Joseph 
 (), Plummer, 
 
 CM.XS. H. Pl.tlM.MKR. 
 
 maciiiner}- and turbines for power. In 1HJ2 the 
 stone dam on the upper le\el was built, and re- 
 centl}' the bleacher)- has Ijeen made one of the 
 lai-gcst in the c(iuntr\'. As this record shows, the 
 business of the compan\' has steadil}- grown, 'bhere 
 are now in the three large mills one hundred and 
 twent\-si.\ thousand spindles and three thousand 
 looms in use, giving employment to sixteen hun- 
 dred hands of all grades, and pa\'ing out in wages 
 each month forty thousand dollars. The fabrics 
 manufactured are sheetings, shirtings, twills, drills, 
 satteens, and fancy goods, Minot, Hooper iV' Co., 
 Selling Agent, New York and Boston, Mr. I'lum- 
 nier is a Mason; a member of St. Paul's Com- 
 
 PERKINS, GEoRcii Hamilton, Commodore (re- 
 tired) Ignited States Na\'y, of Webster and Boston, 
 was born in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, October 
 20, 1835, son of Hamilton Eliot and Clara Bartlett 
 (George) Perkins. In the paternal line he is de- 
 scended from the Rev. William Perkins, who came 
 from England and settled in Topsfield, Massachu- 
 setts, early in the seventeenth centur)-, C)n his 
 mother's side he is descended from John George 
 who settled at Watertown, Massachusetts, and he is 
 also a great-great-grandson of Captain ?jenjamin 
 Emery of the Revolutionary Ami)'. He was edu- 
 cated at the Academies in Hopkinton and Gilman- 
 ton, and b)' pri\'ate tutors. P"or four years he was 
 at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, being gradu- 
 ated in 1856, and receiving his Midshipman's war- 
 rant ( )ctober 11, of that year. This proved to be 
 the first step in a long and brilliant naval career. 
 He was first ordered to the Cyane sloop of war, 
 but in January, 1858, he was detached from that 
 and ordered to the storeship Release, where he 
 served as Acting Master, but was transferred in 
 January, 1859, ^t Montevideo, to the Sabine, He 
 recei\ed his l^ast Midshipman's warrant July 12, 
 1859, and August 2 following, was ordered as Act- 
 ing Master to the Lhiited States steamer Sumpter 
 for ser\'ice on the west coast of Africa. He was 
 Acting Master, and afterwards acting First Lieuten- 
 ant of this ship, which captured the slaver Fal- 
 mouth, and made the quickest passage on record 
 from Africa to the ffnited States, September 8, 
 1859, 1^^ "'as appointed Master, and in March, 
 ]86i, was commissioned Lieutenant. In Decem- 
 ber of that 3-ear he was ordered as First Lieutenant 
 to the gunboat Cayuga of the West Gulf Squadron 
 under Commodore Farragut. On April 20, 1862, 
 Captain Theodorus Bailey took the Cayuga for the 
 flagship for the dixision of gunboats assigned him, 
 for the passage of the Forts Jackson and St. Phillip 
 in the advance on New Orleans. The Cayuga led 
 the advance and destroyed three gunboats, proceed- 
 ing up the river and cutting the telegraph to pre- 
 \ent rebel communication, and captured the Chal- 
 mette regiment. Upon the vessel's arrival at New 
 (Orleans, Lieutenant Perkins went with Captain Bai- 
 ley to demand the surrender of the city, in accom- 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 97 
 
 plishing which task their H\es were in t;re;rt clanger. 
 The Cayuga went to New York for repairs, and 
 then returned to the Mississippi, ascending the 
 river and engaging in a number of skirmishes. 
 Lieutenant Perkins was ordered June i8, 1862, in 
 command of tlie New London, to convey powder 
 to the Union troops at Fort Hudson. The duty 
 was extremely dangerous, as tire ri\'er Isanlvs were 
 hned with rebel batteries and sharpshooters, but 
 the boat passed them successfully three times. On 
 the fourth trip she was riddled with shots and the 
 boiler exploded. July 31, 1S63, Lieutenant Per- 
 kins was given command of the gunboat Sciota on 
 blockade duty off the coast of Texas, and April 15, 
 1864, he captured the blockade runner INhiry Sorley 
 loaded with cotton. He was detached from the 
 Sciota in April, 1864, with leave to proceed north. 
 He voluntered for the fight in Mobile ISay, and was 
 given command of the ironclad Chickasaw, enter- 
 ing Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864, with Farragut's 
 fleet. His ship took a prominent part in the attack 
 on the Tennessee, shooting away her smokestack, 
 wounding her commander, and hitting her with fifty- 
 two shots, as shown by actual count. Her sur- 
 render was attributed to the good work of the 
 Chickasaw, which afterwards shelled Forts l^owell 
 and Gaines, and compelled them to surrender, and 
 made constant attacks on Fort Morgan, which sur- 
 rendered August 24. Lieutenant Perkins remained 
 in command of the Chickasaw before Mobile until 
 July 10, 1865. Li November of that )'ear lie was 
 appointed Superintendent of the ironclads at New 
 Orleans. May ry, 1S66, he was ordered as execu- 
 tive officer to the Lackawanna, Captain \\'illiam R. 
 Reynolds, which during her cruise in the North 
 Pacific took possession of the Midway Islands for 
 the United States. On June 2, 1869, Lieutenant 
 Perkins was ordered to the Boston yard on ord- 
 nance duty. He was appointed Commander Janu- 
 ary 25, rSyr, and in March of the'same year was 
 given command of the ship Relief, which carried 
 stores from the United States to starving France. 
 April 17, rS72, he was ordered as Lighthouse In- 
 spector for the second district. He was sent in 
 February, 1877, to China, to take command of the 
 Ashuelot. The chief event of this trip was the use 
 of his ship for the reception and entertainment of 
 General Grant and party on their visit to the East. 
 On March 10, 1S82, he was appointed Captain in 
 the Navy by regular promotion. In May, 1884, 
 Captain Perkins was ordered to command the 
 Llartford for a cruise in the Pacific. He retired 
 
 from the service April 22,, 1891. Congress in rec- 
 ognition of his long and brilliant record and his 
 great gallantr)-, conferred u|.ion hinr b\' special act 
 in May, 1S96, the rank of Ccanmodore, tiie ap- 
 pointment dating from May 9th. The pay of the 
 rank was declined. Connnodore Perkins was mar- 
 ried September 15, 1870, to Anna Minot Weld, 
 daughter of William F, Weld of Boston, Massachu- 
 setts. He has one child : Isabel \^'eld. who is mar- 
 ried to Larz Anderson. Mis present residences are 
 at 125 Connnonwealth A\'enue, lioston, Massacliu- 
 setts ; l)e Rham Cottage, I'.ellevue A\'enue, New- 
 port, Rhode Island, and Winnepauket Farms, Web- 
 ster, New Hampshire. He is a member of the 
 
 i;euR(;k n. i'erkins. 
 
 Army and Navy and Metropolitan Clubs of Wash- 
 ington, and of the Lhiion, Somerset and Country 
 Clubs of ]-!oston, the Military ( )rder of the Loyal 
 Legion, and the United States Military Historical 
 Society of Massachusetts. 
 
 PARKIER, Hem<\' Riisr, l'h)sician, I)o\-er, was 
 born in Wolfboro, New Hampshire, January 24, 
 1836, son of John Tappan and Sally Levitt (Seavey) 
 Parker. He is of English descent, and his ances- 
 tors were very prominent in the early history of 
 the state. He traces his descent to \\'illiam Bar- 
 ker of Bortsmouth, whose son was Mattliew Stan- 
 ley Barker of Wolfboro, who was advisor of 
 
98 
 
 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 the Go\einor at the time of the Revohitionan- \\"ar. 
 Doctor Parker is grandson of HeniT Rust Parker 
 who was a grandson of Matthew Stanle}- Parker. 
 The Parker famih' have been very prominent on 
 the bench in Rockingliam county. Doctor Parker 
 was educated in the common schools, and at Wolf- 
 boro and Tuftonborough Academy, now ]]rew- 
 ster Free School, in his nati\e town. He after- 
 wards attended Dartmouth Medical College, and 
 was graduated in 1866. Previous to his gradua- 
 tion he taught for three \'ears in the W'olfboro 
 and Tuftonborough Academy and also taught in 
 the High School at f'armington from 1859 to 1865. 
 He served for eighteen 3-ears as Superintendent of 
 
 HF.NRV R. PARKER. 
 
 Schools in his natix'e town. fJeginning practice in 
 Wolfboro in the year of his graduation, he remained 
 there until the year 1881, when he remo\'ed to 
 Dover where he has since resided. In politics 
 Doctor Parker is a Democrat. In November, 1890, 
 he was elected Mayor of the city against a larfe 
 liepublican majority and was re-elected the follow- 
 ing year. He was President of the Do\'er Medical 
 Society and of the Strafford County Medical Soci- 
 ety, and a member of the New Hampshire Medical 
 Society. He was President of the fioard of 
 Examining Surgeons for Strafford county during 
 President Cleveland's administrations. Doctor 
 Parker was appointed Co-e.xecutor and Trustee 
 
 under the will of Hiram Barker, late of Farming- 
 ton, in which capacity as Trustee he still serves. 
 He is a member of the Dover Historical Society ; 
 a Thirty-second Degree Mason, and a member of 
 St. Paul Commandery. Doctor Parker married in 
 1866, Ella Maria Thompson, of Wolfboro. They 
 have had three children : Nathalie Sally and Alberta 
 Thompson Parker now li\ing, and Henr}' Rust 
 Parker, deceased. 
 
 PO^^'ERS, \\'iLP,uR Howard, Lawyer, Boston 
 and Hyde Park, Massachusetts, was born in Cro)'- 
 don. New Hampshire. January 22, 1849, son of 
 Elias and Emeline (^^'hite) Powers, (^n the pater- 
 nal side he is of Norman descent. His first ances- 
 tor of whom he has an)' record went from Nor- 
 mandy to England with ^^'illiam the Conqueror, 
 and was a commanding officer at the Battle of 
 Hastings. At that time the name was Le Poer. 
 It was later anglicized and called Poer, and still 
 later was spelled Power and sometimes Poore. His 
 first ancestor .in this country was ^^'alter Power, 
 who came to Massachusetts soon after 1620, set- 
 tling in Middlesex county. His sons added (s) to 
 the name and it has since been spelled Powers. 
 Ezekiel Powers, great-grandfather of the subject 
 of this sketch, moved from Massachusetts to Croy- 
 don, being among the first settlers of that place. 
 He was noted for his strength of mind and body, 
 and for his inventions, which included a side-hill 
 plow, loop sled, sap pan, and other articles of use- 
 fulness. Three of the great-grandfathers of Wilbur 
 H. Powers served in the Revolution ; the records 
 at Concord, New Hampshire, show that Captain 
 Joseph Taylor, a great-grandfather on his mother's 
 side, was an ofiicer in the Continental War and 
 a Captain during the Revolutionary War; Ezekiel 
 Powers was in the army and the tradition is passed 
 down from generation to generation that he was at 
 the surrender of P.urgoyne. The third great-grand- 
 father in the maternal line was in the Continental 
 \\'ar and the War of the Revolution. Abijah Powers, 
 son of Ezekiel Powers, was a Major in the War of 
 1S12. Elias Powers was a farmer, and held the 
 position of Selectman of his town. County Com- 
 missioner, and other offices. He was a man of 
 great influence and was frequently consulted for 
 advice on all subjects by his neighbors for many 
 miles around. There is a branch of the Powers 
 family in Vermont, of which Hiram Powers, the 
 sculptor, and Congressman H. H. Powers are the 
 most distinguished ; and in Maine, of which 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 99 
 
 Governor Powers, the present executive, is tlie best 
 known. In tlie New Vorlv bi'iinch are included tlie 
 wife of President Fillmore, and Congressman Gres- 
 ham Powers. A member of the faniil)' owned 
 Powers Hill, one of the hills on which the llattle 
 of GTettysburt; was fought, and he was present at 
 that battle. Wilbur PI. Powers attended the public 
 schools of Groydon, spent one )'ear at ( )lean Acad- 
 emy, Olean, New ^■ork, and graduated from Kim- 
 ball l^nion Acadeni}' in 1871. He took a regular 
 classical course at Dartmouth College and gradu- 
 ated in 1S75. I" 'S7S he graduated from the 
 Boston ITniversity School of Law, being admitted 
 to the Par in August of that vear. In the course of 
 
 WILMUR H. POWERS. 
 
 his professional career, he has been Counsel for 
 the town of Hyde Park, for the ( )kl Colony Rail- 
 road, until it became a part of the Consolidated 
 System, and for the New Ha\-en Railroad, 1.S94- 
 '97 ; and has always had a large general practice 
 since he opened his office in Boston, January 22, 
 1879. He was a member of the Delta Kappa 
 Epsilon in college and joined the Masons in his 
 student days. He is a member of the Supreme 
 Commandery, United Order Golden Cross ; a 
 Royal Arch Mason, Royal Arcanum, Royal Good 
 Fellow, Society of the Sons and Daughters of 
 American Revolution, and a member of the W'li- 
 verly Club, of which he was President, iS94-'98. 
 
 In politics he has always been a Republican. He 
 was a Representative of the town of Hyde Park in 
 the (ieneral Court of Massachusetts in i890-'9i- 
 '92 ; a member of the Republican State Committee, 
 i893-'g4 ; and of the Republican Congressional 
 Conunittee, i887-'97, and Pix'sidential Elector in 
 1S97. He married, May j, 1880, I'Jnily Owen. 
 He has two children, \\'a]ter and ]\1)-ra Powers. 
 
 PL' LSI FER, Charles Ler()V, Mayor of Laco- 
 nia, was born in Lakeport, lanuary i, 1849, son of 
 Lyman P.. and Sarah (Sawyer) Pulsifcr. His father 
 for many years was a manufacturer of yarns at 
 Lakeport, and was a native of Gilmanton, whither 
 his grandfather removed from Brentwood in March, 
 1795. Tire famil)- was of Scotch-Irish descent, 
 having come to this country in 17GG. In the mater- 
 nal line Mr. Pulsifer is descended from some of 
 the earliest settlers of Gilmanton, his grandfather, 
 Isaac E. Sawj-er, having been an e.\tensive farmer 
 of that place. Mr. Pulsifer attended the public 
 schools of Lakeport, and the Tilton, New Hamp- 
 shire, Seminary, and was graduated from Colby 
 Academy, New London, in 1874. He was gradu- 
 ated from lirown ITniversit)-, in the class of 1878. 
 From 1879 to 1894 he was Principal of the Lake- 
 port High School and Superintendent of Schools. 
 This position he resigned, and entered the Lake- 
 port Sa\'ings ]!ank in 1895 as A'ice-President and 
 Assistant Treasurer, positions he still holds. He 
 has been a member of the Board of Education for 
 Lakeport and Laconia almost constantl)' since 1S79, 
 his present ternr expiring in 1901. From 1886 to 
 1892 he was Selectman of (lilford, which then in- 
 cluded Lakeport. He was a Representative in the 
 Legislature in iSgo-'gi. He is a Director in the 
 Lakeport Sax-ings Bank, Lakeport National liank, 
 Lakeport Building & Loan Association, and Winni- 
 pesaukee Gas & Electric Compau)-. He is a Past 
 Officer in Chocorua Lodge, Indejiendent r)rder of 
 C)dd Fellows, of Lakeport, and of the Laconia 
 Encampment, and is a member of Canton Osgood. 
 He is a member of Mount Lebanon Lodge, No. ;^2, 
 Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Union Chap- 
 ter No. 7, Royal Arch Masons, Pythagorean Coun- 
 cil No. G, Royal and Select Masters, Pilgrim 
 Commandery Knights 'Pemplar, Mount Washington 
 Chapter, (Jrder Eastern Star, and the Edward 
 A. Raymond Consistory, Thirty-second Degree, 
 Nashua. He is an attendant of the LTnion Avenue 
 Baptist church of Lakeport. In politics he has 
 always been a Republican. He was a member of 
 
INIEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 the Laconia City Council from organization Mav 3, 
 iS93,to INIarch g, iSgy.wlien lie was elected Ma_vor 
 unanimously. He was re-elected by a heavy ma- 
 jority. ]Mr. Pulsifer was married Jul)' 30, 1SS5, 
 to Susan E, Smiley, daughter of Dr. J. R. Smiley, 
 
 C. L. PULSIFER. 
 
 of Sutton, New Hampshire, who died April 2, 
 1890. Mr. Pulsifer had two sisters, the elder 
 Arianna H. I^ulsifer, born June 3, 1844, 'I'ld died 
 January 27, 1883. She was a graduate of Colby 
 Academy and Grand Eigne, Canada, School, and 
 a specialist in Latin and Erencli. She was for 
 several years a teachei- in Colby Acadeni)-, and for 
 eight years Lady Principal of Worce.ster, Massa- 
 chusetts, Academy. The younger sister, Adela L., 
 was born INEiy 12, 1S51, and died ( )ctober 12, i860. 
 
 QUINBY, Henry ])Rt;wER, Manufacturer, Lake- 
 port, was born in Biddeford, Maine, June 10, 1846, 
 son of Thomas and Jane E. ('Brewer) Quinby. Mr. 
 Quinby comes from gcjod old New England stock, 
 on both sides of his family. Through his father, 
 he is a direct descendant of John J<ogers, hfth 
 President of Harvard College, of Major-General 
 Daniel Dennison, the famous colonial ofificer, of 
 Governor Thomas Dudley of the Massachusetts 
 colony and of man)' other colonial celebrities. On 
 his mother's side Mr. Quinb)' descended from 
 Major Charles P'rost. the famous Indian fighter, and 
 
 numbers among his great-great-great-grandmothers 
 two sisters of Sir William Pepperell, the colonial 
 baronet who won renown at the siege of Louisburg, 
 and is a direct descendant of the Reverend Jose 
 Glover, in the ninth generation, at whose charge 
 the first printing press was established in America. 
 He attended the Biddeford schools and Nichols 
 Latin School of Lewiston, as well as Bowdoin Col- 
 lege, Jh'unsw'ick, Maine, being graduated from the 
 latter in iS6g. He received the degree of A. M., 
 in 1872, and in 18S0 was graduated in medicine at 
 the National Medical College, ^^'ashington, District 
 of Columbia. He is INIanager and Assistant Treas- 
 urer of the Cole INLanufacturing Company of Lake- 
 
 HENRY ];. (^)Ul^■I;^'. 
 
 port, with which he has been connected since i86g. 
 Mr. Quinby was a member of Governor Straw's 
 Staff in i872-'73, a member of the Legislature of 
 i887-'88. State Senator in i889-'9o, member of the 
 Governor's Council in i89i-'92, being Chairman of 
 the State Prison Board, Delegate-at-large to the 
 National Republican Convention at Minneapolis in 
 1893, and President of the State Republican Con- 
 vention in 1896. In politics he is a Republican. 
 He was appointed a member of the lioard of Trus- 
 tees of the New Hampshire A.sylum for Insane in 
 1897. He was made a Mason in 1871 at Laconia, 
 and is Junior Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge 
 of Free and Accepted Masons of New Hampshire, 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 lOI 
 
 Deputy Grand Commander of the Grand Com- 
 mandery, Knights Templar of New Hampshire, and 
 an Active Member of the Supreme Council of the 
 Scottish Rite of the Northern Masonic jurisdiction 
 of the United States. He is Vice-President of the 
 Laconia National and City Savings Banks of Laco- 
 nia. Mr. Quinby married June 22, 1870, Octax'ia 
 M., daughter of Hon. ]>. J. Cole of Lakeport. He 
 has two children : Henry Cole Quinby, a lawyer in 
 New York city in the office of Evarts, Choate \: 
 Beaman, and Candace Ellen, wife of Hugh N. 
 Camp, Jr., of New York city. 
 
 RANLET, Joseph, l^etired Manufacturer, 
 Laconia, was born in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, 
 November 27, 18 11, son of Noah and Rachel 
 (Osgood) Ranlet. He attended the public schools 
 of his native town, and began his business career 
 at the Gilford Manufacturing Company of Meredith 
 Bridge, New Hampshire. In 1S29, he went to New- 
 market, where he had charge of the machine shops 
 of the Newmarket Manufacturing Company, a post 
 which he held until November, 1849, when he re- 
 
 JOSEPH RANEET. 
 
 moved to Laconia. In May, 1850, he formed the 
 partnership with his brother, Charles Ranlet, in the 
 manufacture of railway cars, under the name of 
 Ranlet Car Company, which continued until the 
 death of Charles Ranlet in October, 1861. In 
 
 December of the following year, Joseph Ranlet 
 formed a partnership with John C. Moulton, contin- 
 uing the business under the name of Moulton & 
 Ranlet Car Company. In January, rS65, another 
 company was formed under the name of the Ranlet 
 Manufacturing Company, the members being John 
 C. Moulton, Joseph Ranlet, and Perley Putnam, 
 which continued in business until yVpril 20, 1878, 
 when Mr. Ranlet I'etired from the business. He 
 was married November 6, J 836, to Elizabeth Fra- 
 zier Somerby. They have three children : Sarah 
 Elizabeth, Ella Virginia, and Mary Abbie Somerby 
 Ranlet. 
 
 RICHARDSON, Cyrus, D. D., Pastor of the 
 First Congregational Church, Nashua, was born in 
 Dracut, Massachusetts, March 30, 1840, son of 
 Samuel and Hannah (Varnum) Richardson. He is 
 descended in the eighth generation from Ezekiel 
 Richardson, one of the founders of the town of 
 Woburn, Massachusetts, and of its church, a fact 
 which led to the selection of Dr. Richardson to 
 deliver an address at the celebration of the two 
 hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Woburn 
 Church in 1892. He received his preparatory edu- 
 cation at the New Hampshire Conference Seminary 
 at Tilton and Phillips Academy, Andover, Massa- 
 chusetts, and was graduated from Dartmouth Col- 
 lege in the class of '64, being selected as one of the 
 commencement speakers. For two years he was 
 an instructor in Latin and Natural .Sciences in Cin- 
 cinnati, Ohio, at the same time pursuing special 
 studies. Upon his return to New England he 
 entered Andover Theological Seminary in Septem- 
 ber, 1866, completing the full course and being 
 graduated in July, 1S69. He was ordained and 
 installed pastor of the Plymouth (New Hampshire) 
 Congregational Church September 30 of the same 
 year. While here he interested himself in the 
 welfare of the town as well as of the chinx'h. He 
 was among the prime movers for a .state Normal 
 School, and helped to secure its location in Ply- 
 mouth. In the spring of 18S3 he received and 
 accepted a flattering call to the pastorate of the 
 First Congregational church of Keene, New Hamp- 
 shire, to which he ministered for ten years. Not 
 only did he succeed in making his own church 
 strong and active, but churches of the county 
 looked to him as a leader and advisor. In educa- 
 tional matters his influence was well known, ha\'ing 
 been elected as a member of the board of educa- 
 tion and for a time retained as its chairman. In 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 the svimmei" of 1SS3, he received a unanimous call 
 from the First Congregational chmxh of Nashua. 
 It was with great reluctance that the Keene people 
 allowed him to lea\e them. The other Pastors 
 showed their friendship for him and his wife by 
 tendering them a farewell banquet, with fraternal 
 resolutions. His present pastorate has continued 
 fifteen years, and though he has had in\'itations to 
 other fields his purpose seems fi.\ed to remain in 
 Nashua. He is well known throughout the 
 churches of the state, ha\'ing taken a leading part 
 in denominational conferences and ecclesiastical 
 councils. His frecpient calls to preach installation 
 sermons attest the hiirh esteem in which he is held 
 
 CYRUS RICHARJJSON. 
 
 by Congregationalists. In r894, his Nashua 
 church under his leadership dedicated one of the 
 finest church buildings in New England, and its 
 growth has been so marked that it is regarded as 
 one of the strongest churches of the state. Doctor 
 Richardson has travelled extensively in our own 
 country and also abroad, and has given many 
 sketches of his travels. In June, 18S9, upon the 
 twenty-fifth anniversary of his graduation, Dart- 
 mouth conferred ujDon him the degree of D. D., 
 and in 1S92 he was made one of the trustees of 
 the college. For many years he has been a Trus- 
 tee of the New Hampshire Home Missionary Soci- 
 ety, and for se\-eral years a member of its execu- 
 
 ti^•e committee. He married January 18, 1871, 
 Miss Annie Dearborn of Plymouth, a graduate 
 from Mount Holyoke Seminary, and for several 
 3'ears one of its teachers. They have six children : 
 \^'alter Dearborn, born July 10, 1S72 ; Pearl, born 
 April 27, 1S74; Florence H., born June 6, 1875 i 
 Elizabeth G., born April 26, 1877 ; Margaret P., 
 born December 4, 1879 ; and Phillip Richardson, 
 born Februar)' 25, 1884. A prominent parishioner 
 of Dr. Richardson and one of the best known citi- 
 zens of Nashua, the Hon. V. C. Gilman, says of 
 him : " His pifipit manners are dignified and becom- 
 ing. His voice is full, clear, and musical. His 
 enunciation is distinct and entirely free from affec- 
 tation, and fixes the attention of the young as well 
 as the old. His discourses are marked with care 
 in composition and research in preparation. His 
 choice of subjects falls in the line of practical, 
 every-day religious life, and the language employed 
 is plain and concise. There is no painful attempt 
 to make the drapery of words more important than 
 the ideas they clothe. His type of piety is genuine 
 and true. His labors in Nashua have been emi- 
 nently successful, not only among the people of 
 his own parish, but in the broader sense of the 
 entire community, where he is highly appreciated 
 and honored. Among non-churchgoers no clergy- 
 man in the city has so many calls to attend funeral 
 services and other benevolent and gratuitous ser- 
 vice, and no one responds more freely and gener- 
 ously ; at the same time he maintains a close and 
 cordial relation to his own people, so that he per- 
 forms most faithfully a vast amount of parish and 
 public service. His warm paternal heart goes out in 
 care and solicitude for the young beyond the large 
 and interesting family beneath his own roof, and 
 embraces all the children of the parish and public 
 schools, our young men's associations, and all organi- 
 zations that look to the fitting for the higher and 
 nobler duties of life. The value of such a minister 
 and teacher so well equipped, cannot be weighed or 
 measured, and happy is the church and the com- 
 munity where he has an abiding place." The Rev. 
 F. D. Ayer, D. D., of Concord, who is intimately 
 acquainted with Dr. Richardson, his character and 
 work, gives his estimate in the following language : 
 " The Reverend Dr. Richardson possesses and 
 exhibits some of the best results of the New Eno-- 
 land home, school, church, a sound body, mind 
 and heart, obedient to a controlled will. These 
 have made his advance in his profession and his 
 growth of influence in all directions, steady and 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 somewhat rapid. As a preacher he is devoted to 
 his profession. His keen rehsh for his work, his 
 loyalty to its highest obligations, his evident con- 
 viction that a man owes the best he has to his voca- 
 tion and that in it God is to aid him, combine to 
 render his service faithful, untiring, and helpful. 
 He is a strong preacher. His sermons are thought- 
 ful, clear, definite in aim. He has clear convic- 
 tions upon religions and moral subjects which he 
 states decidedly, but yields to all others the rights 
 which he claims for himself, lie has common sense, 
 and uses it in his relation to men. He enters into 
 the feelings and necessities of each individual, and 
 is helpful to all classes. As a citizen he identifies 
 himself with all the interests of his people and of 
 the community in which he lives, and easily takes 
 a controlling part in all questions and methods of 
 reform as a staunch friend of mankind. His good 
 judgment, ready mind, and \'aried experience fit 
 him for usefulness beyond the limits of his own 
 cit)'. He is a member of the dift'erent state organ- 
 izations of the Congregational denonnnation, and 
 deeply interested in every good work that may 
 elevate and Christianize the whole people. It will 
 be inferred that he wins a high place in the con- 
 fidence and esteem of the people for whom he 
 labors, and in all his pastorates has carried daily 
 the affection of his people and proved himself " a 
 workman that needeth not to be ashamed." 
 
 SAWYER, Charles Henry, Manufacturer, 
 Dover, was born in Watertown, New York, March 
 30, 1S40, eldest son of Jonathan and Martha (Per- 
 kin,s) Sawyer. His ancestry on both the paternal 
 and maternal sides were among the early settlers of 
 Massachusetts. He attended the schools of \^'ater- 
 town until he was ten )'ears of age, when the fam- 
 ily removed to Dover, and he completed liis educa- 
 tion in that city. He entered the Sawjer Woolen 
 Mills at the age of seventeen, the plant then being 
 engaged in the nianufactiu'e of flannels. He had 
 become thoroughly proficient in the business at the 
 age of twenty-six, and was then appointed Superin- 
 tendent of the mills. In 18S1 he became President 
 of the company, and since then the general manage- 
 ment of the mills has been in his hands. Through- 
 out his business career Mr. Sawyer has been mark- 
 edly successful. He has held many public offices. 
 He served in both branches of the City Council of 
 Dover, was Representative to the Legislature in 
 i86o-'7o-'76-'77, a member of the staff of Governor 
 Charles H. Bell in 18S1, and in 1884 he was dele- 
 
 gate to the National Republican Con\'ention in Chi- 
 cago. In 188G he was elected (;o\'ernor of New 
 Hampshire, and duiing Ills term of office, he rep- 
 resented the state in man)' centennial celebrations 
 that were held during that period, particularly at 
 Philadelphia on the occasion of the celebration of 
 the one hundredth anniversaiy of the promulgation 
 of the Constitution of the L'nited States. Another 
 centennial was that in New York of the inaugura- 
 tion of President \^■ashinglon. Mr. Sawyer is a 
 Director in the Strafford National bank, a Trustee 
 and Yice-President of the Strafford Savings Pank, 
 and a Director of the Dox-er (ias Light Company. 
 He has held the positions of l^resident of the Dover 
 
 •f-/ 
 
 CHARLES JL SAWYER. 
 
 Horse Railroad Compan), Director and Executive 
 Member of the Granite State Insurance Company, 
 President of the Elliott liridge Company, a Direc- 
 tor in the l)o\er & Portsmouth, in the Portsmouth, 
 Great Falls e\; Conwa)', and in the Wolfboro Branch 
 Railroads. He is a member of the Congregational 
 Societ)' of Dover. He is a Mason, and has been 
 twice chosen Master of the lodge, and for many 
 years the Eminent Commander of the St. Paul 
 Commandery, Knights Templar. Mr. Sawyer was 
 married February 8, 1S65, to Susan Ellen, daugh- 
 ter of Dr. James \^'. and Elizabeth Cowan of Dover. 
 Their children are : William Davis, who married 
 Susan Gertrude, daughter of Hon. Joshua G. Hall 
 
I04 
 
 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 of l)o\er; Charles Francis, who married Oertrude 
 Child, daughter of Hon. Henry W. Severance of 
 San Francisco; lames Cowan, who married Mary 
 Pepperell, daughter of Judge George Seward Frost 
 of Do\er, and Edward and Elizabeth Coffin Sawyer. 
 
 SHU'l'E, Henry Aucustus, Lawyer, Exeter, 
 was born in that town, November 17, 1S56, son of 
 George S. and Joanna (Simpkins) Shute. His fam- 
 ily has been prominent in the development of Rock- 
 ingham county. He was educated in the common 
 schools of his nati\e town, at Phillips Academy and 
 later at Harvard College, where he was graduated 
 in 1879. H'^ studied law with W. W. Stickney of 
 
 HENRY A. SHUTE. 
 
 Exeter, and was admitted to the liar in August, 
 1 88 2. Since that time he has been engaged in 
 the practice of his profession, being Judge of the 
 Police Court since April, 1883. He has been 
 Treasurer of the Farmers' Insurance Company since 
 1884. In politics he is a Republican. Mr. Shute 
 was married C)ctober 18, 1885, to Amelia ¥. Weeks, 
 who died January 26, 1895, leaving two children : 
 Richard E. and Nathalie. He was a second time 
 married August 12, 1897, to Ella Kent. 
 
 SMITH, IsA.4c WiLLi.\M, Lawyer, INIanchcster, 
 the second child of Isaac and Mar\' (Clarkej Smith, 
 
 was born in Hampstead, New Hampshire, May 18, 
 iS2i5. His early years were passed in the quiet 
 atmosphere of his native \'illage, and in attendance 
 at brief periods at the academies in Salisbury, 
 Atkinson, Derry, and Sanbornton. At the age of 
 fifteen years, he was sent to pursue his studies pre- 
 paratory for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, 
 Massachusetts, then under the care of Samuel H. 
 Taylor, LL. D., one of the most distinguished edu- 
 cators that this country has as yet produced. After 
 completing his preparatory studies he entered Dart- 
 mouth College in 1842. The President of the col- 
 lege, Rev. Nathan Lord, I). I)., was then in the 
 full meridian of that remarkable career which se- 
 cured for him a place among the foremost college 
 presidents of the country. Mr. Smith graduated 
 in 1846, and in the spring of 1847 commenced his 
 legal studies in the office of William Smith, at 
 Lowell, Massachusetts. After spending nearly a 
 year in this office he removed to Manchester, New 
 Hampshire, and completed his studies in the office 
 of Hon, Daniel Clark. He was admitted to the 
 Bar July 9, 1850, and at once commenced the prac- 
 tice of his profession in Manchester, which he has 
 continued to the present time (1898), except while 
 holding a position as Judge. He was for five years 
 the law partner of Hon. Daniel Clark. Mr. Smith 
 was early recognized by his fellow-citizens as tak- 
 ing a lively interest in the welfare of his adopted 
 city. He was President of its Common Council in 
 i85i-'52. City Solicitor in i854-'55, and Mayor in 
 1869. He also served two years upon the Board 
 of School Committee. In 1855 he was appointed 
 Judge of the Police Court of Manchester, but re- 
 signed the office in J 85 7 to engage more fully in 
 the practice of his profession. He was elected in 
 1859 '-'--' lepiesent his ward in the Legislature of 
 the .state, and re-elected in the following year, and 
 in the latter year was Chairman of the Judiciary 
 Committee of the House of Representatives. In 
 i862-'G3 he was a member of the State Senate and 
 Chairman of its Judiciary Committee. In 1863 
 he was appointed by President Lincoln Assessor 
 for the second internal revenue district of New 
 Hampshire, and held the office until 1870. He 
 was appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme 
 Judicial Court of New Hampshire, February 10, 
 1874, by Governor Straw. In August of that year 
 the court was re-oiganized, and he was appointed 
 by Goxernor Weston, Associate Justice of the new 
 court, and held the office until the court was again 
 re-organized in August, 187G. In July, 1877, a 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 i°S 
 
 vacanc)' occurring in the Supreme Court, he was 
 appointed by Governor Prescott to fill the position, 
 which he occupied until he retired in May, 1895, 
 having reached the age limitation prescribed bv 
 the constitution of the state. As a lawyer, Judge 
 Smith in his practice has been characterized by a 
 clear judgment, unsparing industry, and unbending 
 integrity. Upon the bench, his ability as a law- 
 yer, his conscientious and thorough examination of 
 every case upon which he was called to express an 
 opinion, and the judicial poise and impartialit)' 
 which he alway.s maintained, secured for his decis- 
 ions the highest degree of confidence and respect. 
 Judge Smith's personal interest in the affairs of his 
 alma mater has suffeiecl no abatement as other 
 cares and interests have multiplied. Pie was Presi- 
 dent of the Dartmouth AKunni Association in 1881- 
 '83, and of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in 1882- 
 '84. In college he was one of the charter mem- 
 bers of the Dartmouth C'hapter of the Alpha 
 ]_)elta Phi Society. In 18S0 he deli\-ered before 
 the Alumni Association an eulogy on the life and 
 character of Hon. William H. Hartlett, late Asso- 
 ciate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Hamp- 
 shire. In March, 1885, he was elected one of the 
 Trustees of the College, and has held that position 
 to the present time. He received the degree of 
 LL. D. from the college in 1S89. He has found 
 time in the press of professional duties to indulge 
 his taste for historical investigation, contributing 
 his share to the researches of the New Hampshire 
 Historical Society, of which he has been a member 
 since 186 r. As early as 1849 he delivered an 
 address, which was subsequently published, at 
 the centennial celebration of the incorporation of 
 his nati\'e town. His tastes in this direction 
 gave a special zest and value to a visit which 
 he made in the summer of 1878 to several scenes 
 of historical interest in the old world. In 18S9 
 he was a delegate from Manchester to the New 
 Hampshire Constitutional Con\'ention. He has 
 been a Trustee of the Manchester Public Li- 
 brary since 1872, and Trustee of the Manchester 
 Savings Bank since 1891. He is also a member 
 of the Masonic fraternity, ha\'ing received all 
 the degrees to and including that of Knights 
 Templar. Politically the sympathies of Judge 
 Smith have been with the Republican part)' since 
 its organization. He was an earnest advocate 
 of the great principles which that party bore in- 
 scribed upon its banners in our terrible civil war, 
 and in the period of reconstruction which followed. 
 
 and which are destined to go down to the future 
 as an inspiring and plastic force in one of the 
 great epochs in histor\'. He was in 1856 a dele- 
 gate to the national con\'ention which nominated 
 Fremont and Dayton as candidates for President 
 and Vice-President. Religiously, by education and 
 conviction, his s)'mpathies are with the Ortliodox 
 Congregationalists. He early identified himself 
 with the Franklin-Street Congregational Society in 
 Manchester, and assumed his full share of its 
 burdens and responsibilities, being called at differ- 
 ent times to fill the offices of President, Treasurer, 
 and Director in it. In 1870 he became a member 
 in full communion of the church with which that 
 
 ISAAC W. SMrj'H. 
 
 society is connected, and has always taken a warm 
 and li^'ely interest in its prosperity, and in the 
 advancement of the cause which it repiesents. 
 Judge Smith was united in marriage August 16, 
 1854, with Amanda W., daughter of Hon. Hiram 
 Brown, the first Mayor of Manchester. Eight chil- 
 dren were born to them : Mary A., wife of V. C. 
 Ferguson, Port Arthur, 'I'exas ; William I., Bustle- 
 ton, Pennsylvania ; Arthur Whitney, deceased 
 March 5, 1866; Julia I!., wife of W. B. Cowan, 
 Saratoga, Wyoming; Edward C, Manchester, New 
 Hampshire; Daniel C, Lawrence, Massachusetts; 
 Jennie P., wife of Dr. J. V. Bothfeld, Newton, Mas- 
 sachusetts; Grace L., Manchester, New Hampshire. 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 SHANNON, Edwin Huwe, La\v)'er, Laconia, 
 waN born in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, March 8, 
 1858, son of James C. and Judith \\'. (ISatchelder) 
 Shannon. He traces his descent in tlie paternal 
 line from an earh" settler of Portsmouth, his grand- 
 father. George Shannon, having been born in that 
 place. In the maternal line he comes of the family 
 which was related to that of the famous statesman, 
 Haniel Webster, his great-grandmother ha\ing been 
 a cousin of the statesman. Mr. Shannon received 
 his education irj the common schools of his native 
 town, and at Gilmanton Academy. He studied law 
 with Hon. 'I'luinias Cogswell of (iilmanton. lately 
 the I'nited States J'ension Agent at Concord, and 
 
 K. H. SHANNON. 
 
 was admitted to the liar in 1881. He then became 
 a partner of Mr. Cogswell, remaining such for 
 about a year, when the partnership was dissolved 
 by mutual consent, Mr, Shannon seeking a wider 
 held for practice than was afforded him in (jilman- 
 ton. He thereafter practiced his profession alone, 
 until 1S93, having offices in Farmington and I^itts- 
 held, where he soon acquired more than a local 
 reputation for his ability in the trial of causes, and 
 gained for himself a considerable clientage. In 1893 
 he went to Laconia and entered into partnership 
 with ^^'. S. Peaslee, the firm subsequently becoming 
 Shannon, Peaslee and Blackstone. In 1894 he with- 
 drew from that hrni, since which time he has been 
 
 in business alone. He is counsel for several large 
 and prosperous corporations, and for a number of 
 years has de\-oted considerable time to the special 
 study of that important branch of the law. He is 
 also considered an authority upon the Law of Per- 
 sonal Injuries, and has a large practice in that 
 branch of his profession. Mr. Shannon is a man 
 of strong personality, is quick to determine and 
 prompt to execute. Fearless in thought and action, 
 with strong common sense as a guide, he does not 
 hesitate to car\e a way where none appears. Prece- 
 dents ha\-e no terrors for him. If they appear to 
 be right, he follows them, but if wrong, he fearlessly 
 attacks them and some, at least, ha\e gone down 
 before the logic of his reasoning. As a counsellor, 
 wise and prudent, in the trial of causes, strong and 
 tactful, and as an advocate, earnest and eloquent, 
 he has acquired a large and lucrative practice. In 
 politics he is a Republican. He was married Octo- 
 ber 18, 1882, to Myra K., daughter of Ira L. and 
 Lavina E. (Drew) Berry, of liarnstead. The)- have 
 three children: Ella (_'., Mildred and Edwin H. 
 Shannon, Jr. 
 
 SPRAGUE, OiiADi.Aii, Retired Manufacturer, 
 West Swanzey, was born in Richmond, New Hamp- 
 shire, May 21, 1826, son of Samuel and Melinda 
 (Kingman^ Sprague. In the paternal line he is of 
 Scotch descent, his great-grandfather having emi- 
 grated from Scotland to Pro\idence, Rhode Island, 
 about 1760. His grandfather, < )badiah Sprague, 
 born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1770, re- 
 moved to Richmond, New Hampshire, in 1792, and 
 resided there until his death in 1858. His father, 
 Samuel Sprague, who was bom in Richmond in 
 1797, died in Winchester in 1881. ( )n the mater- 
 nal side, Mr. Sprague is of good old New England 
 .stock, the Kingman family having long resided in 
 Bridgewater, Massachusetts, before their removal 
 to Winchester, New Hampshire. Mr. Sprague 
 attended the district schools of Richmond until he 
 was fifteen years old, and was a pupil for two years 
 at the \\'inchester High School. At seventeen he 
 was employed as a merchant's clerk, being thus 
 occupied in Winchester and Keene for six years. 
 Then for eight years he was a clerk in a wholesale 
 and retail grocery house in Keene, for six years 
 acting as bookkeeper. He opened a crockery and 
 carpet store in Keene in 1857, but in 1859 sold out 
 his interest to accept the Cashiership of the Win- 
 chester Ijank, where he remained five years, resign- 
 ing to purchase, with others, the woolen and wood- 
 
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 107 
 
 ware mills at West Swanzey. For tweh'e )-ears he 
 was Treasurer and Manager of the Stratton Mills 
 Company, and then retired from the management, 
 retaining, ho\ve\-er, his interest in the property. 
 He built and fitted up a four-sett woolen mill on 
 a water power near Keene, now called Sprague- 
 ville, and another mill for the manufacture of 
 tables and lock-corner boxes, employing about one 
 hundred hands. The mills were destroyed by fire 
 in iSSi,but he immediatel)- relmilt the table and 
 box mill, and in 1SS3 formed the Cheshire Box 
 Compan)-, Charles E. Howe being the Manager. 
 Mr. Sprague then retnrned to \\'est Swanzey, and 
 took the management of the mills there, the name 
 of the company being changed to ^^'est Swanzey 
 Manufacturing Company. He was Treasurer and 
 Manager until 1895, when he sold out his stock in 
 the concern and retired from active business. He 
 is still a resident of West Swanzev. He was a 
 Representati\'e in the State ]>egislature in 1S70 
 and 1871. and held the office of Toun Treasurer 
 and Moderator for sex'cral )-ears. fie is a mem- 
 ber of the Eotlge of the Temple, i'ree and Ac- 
 cepted Masons, K.eene. In politics he has alwa)'s 
 
 OliADI.VH ,SPR.'\(iUE. 
 
 been a Democrat, and at the last I'residential 
 election voted the Palmer and Buckner ticket. 
 Mr. Sprague married. January 3, 1877, Martha E. 
 Mason. They have two children : Bertha E., born 
 in 1880, and Mary M. Sprague, born in 1885. 
 
 STAHL, AiiR.'iH.'VM M., lianker, and Dry-Goods 
 Dealer, fjerlin, was born near Cassel, Germany, 
 March 24, 1853, son of Nehm and Sara (Metzyer) 
 Stahl. He recei\'ed a common school education, 
 and from an earl)- age depended upon his own re- 
 
 A. M. STAHI,. 
 
 sources. In his business career he has been ver)' 
 successful. He has been engaged in the dry -goods 
 business since 1872, and in Berlin he has been 
 identified with many of the other leading interests 
 of the town. For seven years he has been Presi- 
 dent of the Berlin Savings Bank and Trust Com- 
 pany, and for five years President of the Green 
 Aqueduct and Eand Conipan)' of the same place. 
 He has also been a Director In the Daniel Green 
 Eand Company. He ser\'ed as Representative of 
 the General Court of the State of New Hampshire 
 at the session of 1891. He is a member of the 
 Sabatis Eodge, No. 93, Ancient Free and Accepted 
 Masons ; of Coos Eodge, No. 25, Knights of Pythias, 
 and he is also an (,)cld P'ellow. In politics he is a 
 Gold Democrat. Mr. Stahl was married August, 
 1887, to Flora Guttman of Soniersworth, New Hamp- 
 shire. He has two children : Selma Eouise and 
 Jerome Guttman Stahl. 
 
 TENNEY, Charles Hknry, Merchant and 
 Manufacturer, New York, was born in Salem, 
 New Hampshire, July 9, 1842, son of John F. and 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 Hannali (\\'(_i(idbur\") Tennev. He attended the 
 town schools of Salem, and had a coin'se at Tilton 
 Academy. At the age of sixteen he began his 
 business career in a grocer}- store at Methuen, 
 Massachusetts. He embarked in a shoe store at 
 the age of t\vent3'-one and was quite successful for 
 two years, and then started in the manufacture of 
 hats, a business he has since continued in addition 
 to the commission business in the same articles. 
 He has been highly successful in business, and is 
 one of the New Hampshire men who has made for 
 himself a mark in the big city of New York. He 
 is a member of the Metropolitan Club ; of the New 
 England Society ; Union League Club ; New York 
 
 CHAS. H. TENNEY. 
 
 Athletic Club ; the Reform Club ; the Manhattan 
 Club ; the Lotus Club and the Chamber of Com- 
 merce, all of New \'ork. In politics he is a Demo- 
 crat. Mr. Tenney was married No\'ember 2^, 
 1865, to Eann\' (_;. Gleason. They ha\'e one son, 
 Daniel G. ']'enne\'. 
 
 STURTIiA'ANT, Edward Hiram, Manufacturer 
 and Ex-Mayor of Eranklin, was born in Craftsbury, 
 Vermont, April 27, 1S45, ^O'"* o^ Hiram and Eliza 
 S. (Corey) Sturtcwant, Elis father, the only son of 
 Ezra and lAicy Sturte\-ant, was a farmer early in 
 life, but in 1853 sold his place in Craftsbury and 
 remoyed to liarton, N'ermont, later moying to Leb- 
 
 anon, and lni)ing an interest in a manufactory 
 of sash, doors, blinds, and furniture carried on by 
 ]. C. Sturteyant, and continued in this business for 
 four years. Then selling his interest to his part- 
 ner, he started a shoe store, continuing in this bus- 
 iness until he retired. He died December 8, 1895. 
 He had four children : Edward H., Mary E., now 
 the wife of l)a\-id G. Thomson, Superintendent of 
 the Montreal Transportation Company at Montreal ; 
 Ezra L., a lumber dealer in Chicago, and Henry 
 H., proprietor of a department store in Zanesyille, 
 Ohio. The subject of this sketch attended the 
 common schools until he was twelye years of age, 
 and then spent four years in Barton Academy, 
 completing the course at sixteen. He taught in the 
 district school during the winter, and the next 
 spring entered the eniplo}- of ^Yilliam Joslyn & 
 Sons, druggists, with a \iew of learning the busi- 
 ness. Two years later he obtained a position in 
 \\'ellington, ( )hio, as head clerk in a drug store, 
 and there remained about two years, the last year 
 making all the purchases of goods and having gen- 
 eral management of the business. Poor health, 
 largely clue to the climate, compelled him to leaye 
 Ohio, and he returned to Lebanon, where he 
 started a drugstore in April, 1866. This business 
 proyed a success, and in a few months Mr. Sturte- 
 yant sold the business at a handsome figure to 
 Doctor L N. Perley. Joslyn & Sons, his former 
 employers, offered to join him in establishing a 
 drug-store in Colebrook, and he accepted the propo- 
 sition. The store was built and stocked with drugs, 
 medicines, paints, oils, books, and stationery, Mr. 
 Sturte\ant ha\ing the management for the first two 
 years. Then Mr. G. S. Joshm, one of the sons, 
 bought out his interest in the establishment. Mr. 
 Sturte\ant went on a trip through the states of 
 Iowa and Michigan, looking for a fa\orable busi- 
 ness opening, but here again the climate failed to 
 agree with him, and he decided to return to New 
 England, In January, 1869, he opened a drug 
 store in Woodstock, \ermont. taking his brother 
 Ezra as a partner, and added boots and shoes as a 
 part of the business. In April, 1S74, the brothers 
 sold out the business, Ezra Sturteyant going West 
 and Edward H. Sturteyant remoying to Franklin, 
 where he bought two drug stores, one at Franklin, 
 and the other at Franklin Falls. E\-entually he 
 sold the latter st(jre to Frank H. Chapman. In 
 18S3 he bought a half interest in the Franklin 
 Needle Company, taking the management and hold- 
 ing the office of Treasurer of the concern from that 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 109 
 
 time. llL^^innin^- with about t\vcnty-li\'e employees, 
 the bu,sine.ss lias been developed until one hunched 
 and seventy-li\-e are now emplo)'ed, and tlie com- 
 pany has a trade extending- throughout the United 
 States, Canada, several South American countries 
 and p:ngland. In 18S7 Mr. Sturtevant .sold his 
 Franklin drug-store to \^'. M. Woodward, his duties 
 with the manufacturing company requiring all his 
 time and attention. He is a Director in the Frank- 
 lin National JSank, Trustee of the Franklin Savings 
 ]>ank, Director and \'ice-l'resident of the P'ranklin 
 Power and Light Company, President and Director 
 of the iManklin Falls Compan}-, and Director in 
 the Sulloway Mills Companv. In 1893 he repre- 
 
 K. H. S'rURl'KVANT. 
 
 sented the town in the Legislature, and in 1896 
 was Mayor of Franklin. He is a member of the 
 Meridian Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Ma- 
 sons of Franklin, St. Omer Chapter, Royal Arch 
 Masons of Franklin, and Mt. Horeb Commandery 
 of Concord. He is an Odd P'ellow and a mem- 
 ber of the Encampment and Canton. In politics 
 he is a Republican. He is a member of the 
 Unitarian Church Society. He married in May, 
 1869, Ada E. Martin, daughter of Joseph A. and 
 Elvira L. Martin of Stratford, New LLrnipshire. He 
 has two children : Eva E., born in October, 1875, 
 and Ruth l'>. Sturte\ant, born in October, 1881. 
 
 'I'E'l'Ll'^V, FiiMiJNii, l>ientenant-( 'olonel I''irst New 
 Hampshire Volunteers, and Manufacturer, Laconia, 
 was born in liradford, Yorkshire county, luigiand, 
 October 26, 1842, son of William and Mary Ann 
 (J!ra3'sha\v) Tetle)-. He attended the schools in 
 England until he was tweh'e )'ears of age, when 
 with his family he came to America. At the age 
 of nineteen he enlisted in the United States Marine 
 Corps at Portsmouth and saw some acti\'e service. 
 Lie was at the attack on P'orts Jackson and Philip, 
 and at the capture of New Orleans by Admiral 
 Farragut, being on board the United States sloop 
 of war Portsmouth, which was subsequently sta- 
 tioned at New ( )rleaus for nearly four years. At 
 the close of the war, he returned to Amesbury, 
 Massachusetts, subsequently going to Appleton, 
 Wisconsin, and then to l^tica, New York. I'rom 
 Utica he went to Olneyville, Rhode Island, and 
 thence to Lowell, where he obtained employment in 
 a paper-bo,\ factory. Somewhat later he obtained 
 a position in a paper-box factory in Methuen, 
 from which he in turn went to Ha\-erhill, Massa- 
 chusetts. In 1873, 'i'-' "■'-'"t to Laconia, where he 
 entered the employ of V. l\ Holt, manufacturer 
 of paper boxes. Five years later Mr. 'I'etley suc- 
 ceeded Mr. Holt, and has since carried on a 
 large and successful business on his own account. 
 He has two factories, one at No. 10 Arch street, 
 Laconia, and the other at 156 (lold street, Lake- 
 port. His business is selling to the local trade. 
 Mr. Tetley's interest in military alTairs did not 
 cease with the war ser\'ice. Soon after coming 
 to New Hampshire he joined Company K of the 
 Third Regiment of the State National Cuard. He 
 was made Lieutenant in 1873, and a year later 
 promoted Captain, serx-ing in this I'ank until his 
 resignation in 1883. Some years later the old 
 Company K was disbanded, whereupon Mr. Tetley 
 organized another company which took the place 
 in the same regiment, of which he was chosen C'ap- 
 tain. He was promoted to the rank of Major, May 
 8, 1S94. He held this position at the time of 
 President McKiuley's first call for ^'olunteers, when 
 the Third New Hampshire Regiment was selected 
 for duty at the front. Major Tetley being in com- 
 mand when it left the state on its way to Chatta- 
 nooga. He has held a number of political posi- 
 tions, among them, Selectman of Laconia; High 
 Sheriff of Belknap county, 1888-90; a memljer of 
 the first Laconia City Council, representing \\'ard 
 4. an office he held for two years ; member of the 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 State Legislature in 1S94, where he served as 
 Chairman of the Committee on iMihtary Affairs, 
 and also on the Committee of the Soldiers' Home. 
 He is \erv popular in fraternal circles, and is a 
 member of a dozen or more organizations. In poli- 
 
 EIl.MUNI) TETLEY. 
 
 tics he is a Ivepublican. Colonel Tetley was married 
 December 9, 1868, to Ella F. Merrill of Lowell. 
 ( )f their seven children, h\e are living: Edmund 
 B., now a student in theology; (iuy M., Superin- 
 tendent of his father's factory at Laconia ; Ger- 
 trude, a resident of Lowell ; Blanche and Charles 
 Tetlev, now at school in Laconia. 
 
 THOMPSON, Arthur, Merchant and Manu- 
 facturer, Warner, was born in that town, [une 24, 
 1844, son of Robert and Susan (Bartlett) Thomp- 
 son. His great-grandfather, Benjamin Thompson, 
 a soldier in the Revolution, was wounded in the 
 war, and died on the way home, after a long ser- 
 \-ice. ( )n the maternal side IMr. 'I'hompson traces 
 his ancestry to Adam Barttelot, an Esquire who 
 came o\'er with William the Conqueror, settled in 
 Essex, Phigland, and was buried at Stopham in 
 I 100. Mr. Thompson's maternal great-grandfather 
 was Simeon Bartlett, of Ame.sbury, Massachusetts, 
 a prominent business man, and like his brother, 
 Go\-ernor Josiah liartlett, first C;o\'ernor of New 
 
 Hampshire, was an ardent patriot in the Re\olu- 
 tion, and Chairman of the New Hampshire Com- 
 mittee of Safety during the long struggle for inde- 
 pendence. He was one of the original proprietors 
 of the township of ^^'arner. Arthur Thompson 
 attended the schools of his native town and Pem- 
 broke and Henniker Academies, being graduated 
 from the latter in 1S62. He at once began the 
 study of medicine with Doctors Gage and Hildreth 
 at Concord, but after four months he joined the 
 Eleventh New Hampshire Regiment and served 
 until the close of the war. After being in the army 
 for three months, he was detached from his regi- 
 ment and served at different times at the head- 
 quarters of the Second, Third, and Fourth Divi- 
 sions of the Ninth Army Corps ; and also, at the 
 Ninth Army Corps headquarters, and at the de- 
 fenses of Bermuda Hundred under Major-General 
 Hartsuff. For the last eight months of the war he 
 was on detached service by special order of General 
 Grant. He was at the siege of Kno.wille and at 
 Vicksburg and also at all the battles engaged in by 
 the Ninth Corps from Fredericksburg in 1862 to 
 the fall of Petersburg in 1S65. He was still under 
 twenty-one years of age at the close of the war, but 
 upon attaining his majority entered business at 
 Warner. Later he spent se\eral years in Illinois, 
 Iowa, and New York cit)'. Since 1875 he has 
 resided at Warner, passing several winters in the 
 Southern states and two seasons in California and 
 Arizona. He was a merchant in \\'arner in 1875- 
 '89, and in 1 881 -'94 was largely engaged in the 
 manufacture of fruit e\aporators and of evaporated 
 goods. He sold evaporators from Maine to Arkan- 
 sas, the general price of the factory machines being 
 from four hundred to eight hundred dollars each. 
 He also put in and operated e\aporating plants in 
 Virginia and North Carolina. In Warner he 
 operated the largest e\aporating plant in New Eng- 
 land, and with one or two exceptions the largest 
 one in the United States. He employed more 
 men and women in ^^'arner than any other person 
 in town. He built a number of houses and in 1883 
 erected for the Patrons of Husbandry, Grange 
 Hall which was occupied by them for nine years. 
 He started a broom factory in 1887, but after doing 
 some ten thousand dollars worth of business he 
 was compelled to gi\e it up, for the reason that 
 help could not be hired in Warner at prices paid 
 by similar concerns in New York and elsewhere. 
 He moved the machinery of the plant to North 
 Carolina and there did a fairly successful business, 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 until he sold out to persons living in that state. 
 From 1887 to 1S93 he was in the real estate busi- 
 ness in North Carolina and handled a large amount 
 of \'illage and mining property. His endeavors 
 have been devoted almost wholly to business and 
 not much to politics. He has held school offices, 
 and has been Supervisor, Chairman of the Board 
 of Selectmen, and Justice of the Peace for several 
 years. He is a member of Harris Lodge, Ancient 
 Free and Accepted Masons; of Robert Campbell 
 Post, Grand Army of the Republic, and ^^'arner 
 Grange. He is an occasional writer for a number 
 of publications. He married (October 14, 1S67, 
 Caroline Beckler of Syracuse, New York. He has 
 two children : Caroline E. and Robert Thompson, 
 who studied medicine for four years, taking two 
 courses of lectures at Dartmouth College and one 
 at Baltimore where he was graduated and received 
 the degree of M. I), at the age of twenty-one. He 
 is now practicing successfully at Sutton, New 
 Hampshire. On May 12, 1S98, President McKin- 
 ley appointed Arthur Thompson Captain and Assis- 
 tant (Quartermaster United States Volunteers. He 
 
 Army, as Chief Quartermaster of the Second Divi- 
 sion, First Army Corps, and at this writing is in 
 that position. 
 
 f-,: 
 
 ARTHUR THOMPSON. 
 
 was confirmed by the Senate on May 19 and joined 
 the army at Chickamauga Park, Georgia, and owing 
 to his experience in the Quartermaster's department 
 during the Civil War, was at once assigned by 
 the Assistant r)uartermaster (General L'nited States 
 
 UPTON, Jacdi; Kknurick, Assistant General 
 Superintendent of the Lfnited States Life Saving 
 Service, was born in Wilmot, New FLampshire, 
 October 9, 1837, son of Daniel and Asenath rPeel) 
 Upton. On the paternal side the family is of 
 English descent, the line tracing back to tire C'on- 
 quest. Though originally settled in Cornwall, the 
 llptons have for many generations maintained their 
 seat in Westmoreland. John Upton, from whom 
 the subject of this sketch is descended (eighth 
 generation) was an ardent supporter of King 
 Charles L and was captured with many others in 
 a battle near the town of LIpton in \\'orcester 
 county, and banished by Cromwell to America in 
 1652. He settled in that part of Salem now known 
 as Danvers, where he secured large holdings of 
 land, as became an e.xiled Tor)-. His descendants 
 are numerous in that vicinity, and are also found 
 scattered through the whole country. Jacob Ken- 
 drick, after passing through the public schools of 
 his native town, attended the New London Literary 
 and Scientific Institution, and was graduated there- 
 from in July, 18G0. Took a course in the Law 
 School in the District of Columbia, graduating in 
 1866, and in the same year was admitted to the 
 Bar. In 1S63 he was appointed to a position in 
 the United States Treasury Department, and was 
 made Chief Clerk by promotion in March, 1877, 
 his appointment bearing the first official signature 
 of the Hon. John Sherman, as Secretary of the 
 Treasury. Two years later he was appointed 
 Assistant Secretary by Mr. Sherman, and con- 
 tinued to serve in that capacity under Secretaries 
 Windom and Folger. He was appointed Financial 
 Statistician of the eleventh census, and published 
 two folio volumes on the " \^'ealth, Deist, and Taxa- 
 tion of the Country," this being probably the most 
 exhaustive presentation of the resources and obli- 
 gations, national, state, and local, e\'er made of this 
 or any other country. Upon the completion of 
 this work, he was transferred to the Lfnited States 
 Treasury as Assistant General Superintendent of 
 the Life Saving Service, a post he still retains. In 
 1884 he published through Lothrop & Company, 
 lioston, a volume entitled " Money in Politics," 
 which is now passing through its second edition. 
 In 1895 he published "A Coin Catechism," of 
 which a large number were in use as a Republi- 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 can campaign document in 1896. He has been a 
 frequent contributor to Harper's publications and 
 to the magazines of the countr}' on financial and 
 economic topics, and was one of the founders of 
 the Cosmos Club of Washington, District of Colum- 
 
 J. K. UPTON. 
 
 bia. In politics he has always been a Republican, 
 and especially a firm believer in the establishment 
 and maintenance of the gold standard. He was 
 married October 29, 18S4, to Mrs. Mary de Hass 
 Hoblibzell, second daughter of Doctor Wills de 
 Hass, well known in the literary and scientific cir- 
 cles of the capital. They have one child : Jacob 
 Kendrick I'pton, Jr.. born January 17, 1886. 
 
 TRUl'JSl )ELL, ImjMUND I^rskine, Superinten- 
 dent and Paymaster of the China, Webster, and 
 Pembroke Mills, Suncook, was born at Jewett City, 
 Connecticut, March 3, 1845, s°" ^^ Thomas and 
 Mary (]!o\-den) 'J'ruesdell. On the paternal side 
 he is of Scotch descent, his great-great-grandfather, 
 Ichabod Truesdell, having come from Scotland 
 about 1700, and settled in South \\'oodstock, Con- 
 necticut. His great-grandfather, Darius Truesdell, 
 was a soldier in the War of the Revolution and was 
 at A'alley Forge during the winter of 1777. He 
 was wounded in the side, narrowly escaping death 
 by a ball providentially striking a large old- 
 fashioned pocket book in his waistcoat pocket. 
 
 Edmund Truesdell was educated in the common 
 schools at Newton Upper Falls, Massachusetts. 
 While attending school there he worked in the cot- 
 ton mills during vacations and at other times, and 
 also delivered papers. He afterward took a regu- 
 lar commercial course at Comer's Commercial Col- 
 lege in Boston. Upon leaving school he went into 
 the Newton Cotton Mills and was soon promoted 
 to the office of Overseer in the Cloth Room, Ship- 
 ping Clerk and Assistant Superintendent. The 
 Treasurer of the Newton Mills was also Treasurer 
 of the mills in Suncook, whither Mr. Truesdell was 
 sent to take charge of a department at the Webster 
 and Pembroke Mills. In 1870, he was promoted 
 
 EDMUND E. TRUESDELL. 
 
 to Superintendent and Paymaster of the China, 
 Webster, and Pembroke Companies. He was 
 Town Treasurer of Pembroke in 1878, 79-'8o and 
 '81 ; a member of the Eegislature in 1879 ^'""^ 
 again in 1880 ; and a member of the State Senate in 
 1S87 and 1888. He is a Mason of high rank, a 
 member of Jewell Lodge, of which he is Past Ma.s- 
 ter ; Hiram Chapter; Horace Chase Council ; Mt. 
 Horeb Commandery ; Boston Lodge of Perfection ; 
 Giles F. Yates Council, Princes of Jerusalem; Mt. 
 Olivet Chapter, Rose Croi.x ; Massachusetts Con- 
 sistory, and Aleppo Temple, Nobles of the Mystic 
 Shrine. He is a member of the New England Cot- 
 ton Manufacturei's' Association and the New 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 113 
 
 Hampshire Club. In politics he is a Repubhcan. 
 He is a member of the l!aptist Church at Suiicook. 
 Mr. Truesdell married June 11, 1872, INlary Wil- 
 kins Austin, daughter of David Austin. He has 
 one son : David Edmund Truesdell, born in 1876, 
 now studying at Brown University, Providence. 
 
 YARNEY, David Blakic, Ex-Mayor of Man- 
 chester, was born in Tuftonborough, New Hamp- 
 shire, August 27, 1822, son of lAithcr and Lj'dia 
 (Blake) A^arney. On the paternal side he is of 
 Scotch descent, and on the maternal side of Eng- 
 lish. Mr. Yarney attended the public schools 
 of Dover, New Hampshire. In 1839 '""^ went 
 to Portsmouth to learn the trade of a machin- 
 ist, returned to Dover in 1S42, and removing to 
 Manchester in 1843, entered the employ of the 
 Anioskeag Manufacturing Company. He was 
 Superintendent of the locomotive department of 
 that company for about fi\'e years. In 1857 he 
 opened a brass foundry and copper shop in Man- 
 chester, in which he is still interested. He 
 has been a Director in the Amoskeas' National 
 
 D. I!. VARNEY. 
 
 Bank since 1874, and has been Treasurer of the 
 Forsaith Machine Company since 1884. Mr. Yar- 
 ney was a member of the New Hampshire Legis- 
 lature from Manchester in i87i-'72, and was a 
 member of the Senate in i88i-"82. He was 
 
 Mayor of INlanchester in uSSg-^jo. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Derryiield Club, and of all the Masonic 
 bodies in the city of his residence. In politics he 
 has been a Republican since that party was formed. 
 Mr. Yarney was married June 6, 184S. to Harriet 
 Bean Kimball of Warner, by whom he had three 
 children, t«'o of whom are ]i\-ing : Emma L., and 
 Annie M., now Mrs. Frederick W. Batchelder. 
 
 ^^'EP>STER, Ci.Aunius Buchanan, M. D., and 
 A. M., was born in Hampton, December 10, 1815, 
 son of the Reverend Josiah and I'Uizabeth (Knight) 
 Webster. His father was graduated from Dart- 
 mouth t'ollege in 1798, receiving the degree of 
 Bachelor of Arts and later the degree of Master of 
 Arts. He studied theology with the Reverend 
 Stephen Peabod)' of Atkinson, New Hampshire, 
 and on November 13, 1799, was ordained to the 
 Trinitarian Congregational ministry and installed 
 Pastor of the Second Parish church in Ipswich 
 (now Essex), Massachusetts, where he remained un- 
 til June, 1S08, when he was installed Pastor of the 
 Congregational church in Hampton, New Hamp- 
 shire. There he filled a successful pastorate until 
 his death in 1837. Reverend Josiah Webster was 
 the son of Nathan, a farmer of Chester, New Hamp- 
 shire, who belonged to the same branch of the 
 Webster family from which Daniel AA'ebster de- 
 scended and who traced his ancestry back to 
 Thomas Webster, who emigrated from Orm.sby, 
 Suffolk county, England, and settled in Hampton 
 about 1650. In England the ^^'ebster family was 
 characterized b}' honor, stability, and prominence, 
 one of its members bearing the same name as the 
 colonist, having received the honor of Knighthood. 
 The descendants of Thomas \A'ebster, aside from 
 the great expounder of the Constitution, include a 
 long list of persons, who have become illustrious, 
 not only in their professions, but in literature, the 
 arts and the sciences. Claudius B. Webster was 
 fitted for college in Hampton and was graduated 
 from Dartmouth in 1836, being subsequently hon- 
 ored with the degree of Master of Arts. Anion"- 
 his classmates at Hanover were the Reverend Sam- 
 uel C. Bartlett, D. D., LL. I)., Ex-President of the 
 College; Profes.sor Erastus Everett, LL. I)., of 
 Brooklyn, New York ; Ex-(jOvernor and Ex-Senator 
 James W. Grimes, LL. D., from Iowa; Professor 
 Edmund R. Peaslee, M. I).. LL. D., of New York 
 city, and Hon. John XA'entworth, LL. D., Member 
 of Congress from Illinois. Mr. ^^'ebster was for 
 three years a Civil I'jigineer, and was employed in 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 the laying out of the Peoria iV' \\'arsa\v Railroad in 
 Illinois after his graduation from College ; he then 
 returned to New Hampshire and studied medicine 
 at Boscawen with his brother. Dr. Eliphalet K. 
 \A'ebster, and attended a course of lectures at Dart- 
 mouth Medical College. Later he was a student 
 at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New 
 York and was graduated in 1S44. For a short 
 time he practised his profession and then accepted 
 a position as Principal of the Female Academy at 
 Norwich, Connecticut, where he remained for six- 
 teen years as an able, faithful and conscientious In- 
 structor. In the autumn of 1862, Dr. Webster was 
 in ^^'ashington, District of Columbia, visiting rela- 
 tives, and the result of his visit was his resignation 
 from the Academy at Norwich and his becoming 
 Assistant Surgeon in the United States Army. At 
 that time the Government had upon its hands a 
 great responsibility in the care of the sick and dis- 
 abled contrabands. When the Confederates were 
 forced to move southward, they took with them all 
 the able-bodied negroes of both sexes, leaving in 
 their wake the ill, lame and otherwise disabled 
 colored people. The abandoned negroes, in all 
 degrees of destitution, naturally flocked northward 
 to \^'ashington. They numbered thousands and the 
 world probably never saw a more pitiable lot of 
 humanity. These unfortunate people were by the 
 United States Government gathered at Camp Bar- 
 ker, an old cavalry encampment on the outskirts of 
 the city, the site of which is now known as the Iowa 
 Circle, upon which have been erected some of the 
 most elegant residences in Washington. Upon this 
 ground had been built stables for the horses and a 
 large number of huts for the cavalrymen. The 
 Government renovated the camp for the reception 
 of these contrabands and appointed Dr. Webster 
 Acting Assistant Surgeon in medical charge with 
 nurses to assist him. Dr. \\'ebster remained there 
 a year and a half and during that time a temporary 
 hospital was erected and other improvements car- 
 ried out. His duties were of an arduous and try- 
 ing nature, and during his service hundreds of 
 cases of small-pox came under his care. In 1864 
 all the people were removed to the General Lee 
 estate opposite \A'ashington where the Government 
 had erected houses for their occupancy and also a 
 hospital. Dr. Webster continued in charge of these 
 contrabands in their new location for some months, 
 when he was ordered to the Southwest with head- 
 quarters at Louis\'il!e, Kentucky, where he was put 
 in charge of railway hospital trains that were used 
 
 in conveying sick and wounded soldiers of our 
 army from Southern to Northern hospitals. He 
 personally accompanied those trains transferring 
 the soldiers who were able to travel from hospitals 
 as far South as Chattanooga, Tennessee, to hos- 
 pitals in the North. While in the performance of 
 these duties he was commissioned by Governor 
 Buckingham, known as the " ^^'ar Go\'ernor " of 
 Connecticut, to care and provide for any soldiers 
 belonging to regiments from that state whom he 
 might find in Southern hospitals, and for which 
 services he declined the remuneration that was 
 tendered him. After the discontinuance of the 
 hospital trains at the close of the war. Dr. Webster 
 
 CLAUDIUS P,. WEBSTER. 
 
 was engaged in forwarding the soldiers still remain- 
 ing in the large hospitals in I>ouis\alle and Jeffer- 
 sonville (Indiana), to their homes or to hospitals 
 further north. He continued in that work until 
 after the close of the war in J865, when he was hon- 
 orably discharged from the United States service. 
 During his three years of hospital work, Dr. Web- 
 ster performed from time to time, gratuitous service 
 for the United States Sanitary Commission. His 
 labors for the Governiuent were performed with 
 remarkable faithfulness and sincerity, and justly 
 entitled him to the gratitude of the Nation. After 
 leaving the Medical Department of the Army, Dr. 
 Webster returned to Norwich, Connecticut, to 
 
MEN OF PROGR?:SS. 
 
 115 
 
 enjoy a few yeait, of rest and leisure — a \acation 
 which he had well earned. A gentleman of his 
 ability and patriotism, and with so large an ac- 
 quaintance with the prominent men of the country, 
 was not likely to remain long in private life, and 
 hence the people of his city were not surprised to 
 learn in 1870, that, entirely unexpectedl)' and un- 
 sought, he had been appointed by President Grant, 
 United States Consul at Sheffield, England, one of 
 the most important consulates in (ireat Britain. He 
 filled that position until 18S6, when according to 
 custom in the changes in the National administra- 
 tion, he was succeeded by an appointee of Presi- 
 dent Cleveland. In view of the freciuent changes 
 in consulates, it is worthy of remark that Dr. Web- 
 ster's term of sixteen years at Sheffield extended 
 over four administrations at Washington, and was 
 the longest United States Consulship on record in 
 that country. It is needless to state that he per- 
 formed his duties at Sheffield with dignity, ability 
 and fidelit}', to the entire satisfaction of the succe.s- 
 sive Presidents from whom he received his com- 
 missions. He made no attempt to become conspic- 
 uous in English public life, but devoted his time, 
 outside of direct official labors, to the culti\ation of 
 cordial and friendly relations with those English 
 manufacturers and merchants who were extensively 
 engaged in shipping Sheffield goods to America. 
 The extent of this commerce may be shown by the 
 fact that in one year during Dr. Webster's tenure 
 of office, the value of shipments from Sheffield to 
 America amounted to one million five hundred 
 thousand dollars. While at Sheffield the honor 
 devolved upon him to receive E.x-President Grant 
 while on his journey around the world. After the 
 announcement was made of the appointment of a 
 successor to Dr. Webster at Sheffield, the London 
 papers expressed sincere regret that there should 
 be withdrawn one who had so long represented his 
 country with such fidelity, tact and unswerving- 
 courtesy. After leaving Sheffield Dr. W^ebster took 
 a long European tour and then returned to New 
 Hampshire where he has since made his home, 
 although passing more or less time in Washington 
 and Chicago. On October 31, 1844, Dr. Webster 
 was married to Miss Mary Elizabeth Webster of 
 Pembroke, New Hampshire, a lineal descendant of 
 Hannah Dustin. She was a lovely, refined lady, 
 and after a happy married life extending over forty- 
 two years, death came to her at Sheffield, after a 
 long, useful and exemplary life. Dr. and Mrs. 
 Webster had no children. Dr. Webster had four 
 
 brothers: Dr. l-'.liphalet K. Webster, already 
 named; Josiah Webster, a farmer of Illinois; Pro- 
 fessor John C. ^^'ebster, 1). I)., of Wheaton Col- 
 lege, Illinois, and Major-General Joseph D. Web- 
 ster, United States Army, who Ijecame famous in 
 the Wat of the Rebellion, as General Grant's Chief 
 of Staff, and who by his braver)' and military skill 
 while Chief of Artillery, was credited with having 
 turned the tide of battle and secured the great vic- 
 tory for the ITnion Army at Shiloh. The last two 
 named were Dartmouth College graduates of the 
 class of 1S32, while Dr. K. K. ^Vebster was an 
 alumnus of the Dartmouth Medical College, thus 
 constituting the probabh' unparalleled record of a 
 father and four out of fi\'e sons being graduated 
 from the same college. The subject of this sketch 
 cherishes a lively interest in his y\lma Mater and is 
 President of the Dartmouth Alumni Association 
 of the Concord, New Hampshire, District. He is 
 also a member of the New Hampshire Historical 
 Society. Dr. Webster is a gentleman of modest 
 and retiring manners, frank and generous .sympa- 
 thies, an extensive reader, the possessor of a great 
 fund of general information and keeps posted upon 
 all the great National and other issues of the day. 
 He is a member of the South Congregational 
 church of Concord, New Hampshire. 
 
 WENTWORTH, Georck Alf.ert, President of 
 Exeter Bank, was born in Wakefield, New Hamp- 
 shire, July 31, 1835, ^O'^ '^f Edmund and Eliza 
 (Lang) ^^'entworth. He is a descendant of Elder 
 William Wentworth who settled in Exeter and 
 signed the Exeter Combination in 1639. *^*'"' the 
 maternal side he comes of good old New England 
 stock. He received his early education in the 
 common school and Academy of his native town, 
 prepared for college at Phillips Exeter Academy, 
 entered Harvard in 1855 and was graduated in the 
 class of '58. In the same year, he went to Exeter 
 as Instructor in Latin and Greek, became Profes- 
 sor of Mathematics in Phillips Academy in iSc;g, 
 and held the position until the close of 1891. Mr. 
 Wentworth has published a series of text books of 
 mathematics. The work on geometry was first 
 published in 1880 and has completely revolution- 
 ized the method of teaching that science. Over 
 five hundred thousand copies of the book have 
 been sold. He has published a series of Algebras, 
 of which over one million copies have been sold ; 
 and a series of Arithmetics which have had an 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 extraordinary sale. He has also published a Trigo- 
 nometry, .Sur\eying. and Xa\igation, and an Analytic 
 Geometry, that are used in nearly all the Colleges, 
 and the principal Secondary Schools in the country. 
 Mr. ^^'ent worth has been a 'I'rustee of the Robinson 
 Seminary and is at present President of the Exeter 
 Banking Company. In politics he is a Republican. 
 
 GEO. A. WENTWORTH. 
 
 He married, August, 1864, Emily J. Hatch, of 
 Codington, Kentucky. They have three children : 
 Ellen Lang, George, and Edmund Hatch Went- 
 worth. 
 
 WTIITTEMC )RE, Arthur Gilman, Lawyer, 
 Concord, \\as born in Pembroke, July, 1856, son 
 of Hon. Aaron and Ariannah (Barstow) Whittemore. 
 He is eighth in line from his ancestor Thomas, 
 who immigrated from Hitchin Parish, County of 
 Hertfordshire, England, and settled in Cambridge, 
 Massachusetts, in 1642. He is a great-great-grand- 
 son of Rev. Aaron Whittemore, the first settled 
 Pastor of the Congregational Church in Pembroke, 
 (formerly Suncookj, ordained Pastor March 2, 1738 
 (a graduate of Harvard College in 1732). His 
 great-grandfather, Aaron \Miittemore, was a soldier 
 in the J<evolutionary \\'ar. His father and grand- 
 father were Associate Justices of the Court of Com- 
 mon Pleas for Merrimack county. On his mother's 
 side he is a lineal descendant of Elder William 
 
 Brewster, one of the Ma3-flo\ver pilgrims. He 
 was educated at l^embroke Academy and Harvard 
 Law School and was admitted to the Bar in March, 
 1S79. Soon afterwards he associated with the late 
 Judge C. \A'. Woodman of Dover in the practice 
 of the law, which partnership continued until the 
 death of Judge \A'oodman in iSSS. Since that 
 time Mr. \\'hittemore has practised alone. By 
 strict application to his chosen profession he has 
 gained an extensive and lucrative practice and 
 with it the confidence and respect of the whole 
 community in which he lives. He is attorney for 
 and one of the Trustees of the Strafford Savings 
 Bank, one of the largest and strongest savings 
 banks in the state. He is also the attorney for 
 the Dover Co-operative Bank, ^^'hen the Dover 
 National Bank failed in 1895 Mr. ^^'hittemore was 
 appointed Receiver and although the defalcation 
 of its late cashier exceeded the capital stock Mr. 
 AMiittemore so successfull)' liquidated the remain- 
 ing assets as to paj' the depositors in full with 
 interest and a substantial di^■idend to the stock- 
 holders. He has identified himself with all the 
 
 ARTHUR G. WHITTEMORE. 
 
 public enterprises that concern the welfare of his 
 adopted city. In 1887, when the city built a new 
 system of water works he was elected Water Com- 
 missioner and has held the office to the present 
 time. He is a member and one of the organizers 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 117 
 
 of the Bellamy Club, a business man's social club. 18S5 to 1889, and a member of the Legislature in 
 He married June 27, 1SS7, Caroline E. Rundlett. 1893. He was elected Mayor in November, 1896. 
 They have two children : Manvel and Caroline He is a Mason, a member of Kane Lodge, Lisbon. 
 Whittemore. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member 
 
 and vestryman of St. I^aul's Episcopal Church of 
 
 WOODWCmTH, Alf.ert Bingham, Mayor of Concord. Mr. Woodworth married, September 30, 
 Concord, was born in Dorchester, New Hampshire, 1873, Mary Angeline Parker, of Lisbon. They 
 April 7, 1843, son of George and Louisa (Hove)') have three children: Edward IvnowUon, born Au- 
 gust 25, 1875 i Grace, born October 5, 1S79, ^'^'-^ 
 Charles Parker, born July 8, 1885. 
 
 ALBERT B. W(.)ODWORTH. 
 
 Woodworth. His grandfather, Sylvanus Wood- 
 worth, came from Lebanon, Connecticut, with Elea- 
 zer Wheelock when he founded Dartmouth College, 
 and he afterwards fought in the lievolutionary War, 
 takino' part in the battle of Bunker Hill, under 
 Israel Putnam. Albert Woodworth moved with his 
 parents to Hebron when he was two years of age, 
 and here he attended the district school and took a 
 course at Boscawen Academy. For four years he 
 was employed by D. E. Willard of Orford, the next 
 four years was in business at Warren, and in 
 i858, he succeeded Parker & Young of Lisbon. In 
 1873, he engaged in the retail grocery business in 
 Concord in company with his brother Edward, and 
 two years later, bought the wholesale and jobbing 
 business of Hutchins & Company. He was one of 
 the founders of the Parker & Young Manufacturing 
 Company of Lisbon, and is now its President. In 
 1880 he became part owner of that famous hostelry, 
 the "Tip-Top House." He was Alderman from 
 
 WALLACE, Albert, Shoe Manufacturer, Roch- 
 ester, was born in that town June 6, 1854, son of 
 Ebenezer G. and Sarah E. (Greenfield) Wallace. 
 His ancestors on both sides came to this country 
 in the early days and many of them fought in the 
 Revolutionary ^^'ar on the side of the Colonists. 
 He was educated in the public schools of his native 
 town and at the South Berwick Academy. Later, 
 he entered Dartmouth College and was graduated 
 in the class of 1877. For a time he worked in a 
 tannery and in a shoe factory, and since 1880 has 
 been engaged in the manufacture of leather goods 
 
 ALBERT WALLACE. 
 
 and shoes. He was a member of the Legislature 
 in 1893, and of the Senate in 1S97. In 1898 he 
 was elected to the City Council for a term of three 
 years. Mr. Wallace is a Mason. In politics he is 
 a Republican. He married, May, 1883, Rosalie K. 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 ISurr, of Rochester, who died in September, iSSS, 
 leaving one child : Louis IJ. Wallace. In October, 
 1894, he married Fannie S. Ohadbourne of Water- 
 town, Massachusetts. 'Fhey have two children : 
 Sarah 1., and Eben ^^'allace. 
 
 WILLIAMSON, W.^i.TER Darwtn, Physician, 
 Gorham, was born in Milan, New Hampshire, 
 March 11, 1863, son of Stephen E. and Ellen E. 
 (Ellingwood) Williamson. He was graduated from 
 the North Bridgton Acadeni)- at North Bridgton, 
 Maine, and took a post-graduate course at the 
 Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Female College. 
 He was irraduated from the INIedical College of the 
 
 W. I). WILLIAJISON. 
 
 LTniversity of Vermont in 1888, winning the sec- 
 ond prize. He took a further course in medicine 
 at the Post-graduate College in New York in 1889. 
 He also took a course in this School in 1893 and 
 1897. Doctor Williamson began his practice in 
 Milan, but remo\'ed to Gorham, October 16, 1889, 
 where he has since resided. During President 
 Harrison's administration he was a member of the 
 Pension Examining Board at Lancaster. He has 
 been District Surgeon for the (irand Trunk Rail- 
 way since 1892. He is a member of the Maine 
 Medical Association ; of the New Hampshire Med- 
 ical Society ; of the ( )xford County Medical Asso- 
 ciation, and of the International Association of 
 
 Railroad Surgeons. In politics he is a Republican. 
 Doctor ^^'illiamson was married February 15, 1890, 
 to Hattie M. York of Milan. They have one 
 daughter : Eleanor E. Williamson, born August 30, 
 1894. 
 
 WILKINSON, Solon Stone, Merchant, Keene, 
 was born in Marlborough, New Hampshire, March 
 22, [828, in one of the most romantic and pictur- 
 esque towns in the Granite state. His eye was 
 early charmed with nfmierous vales and hills which 
 were overtopped with Mount Monadnock. He 
 was a robust boy, bubbling over with life, being 
 exceedingly fond of nature. He delighted to en- 
 gage in innocent sports and revel by the brooks 
 and ponds. He was a jolly boy among his play- 
 fellows, and when he laughed, it was so hearty, 
 they could but laugh, too. At five years of age 
 he was in the district school, learning the English 
 alphabet and how to count by numbering his fin- 
 gers. He was loved by teacher and pupils. As 
 the years went on, he advanced in the public school 
 branches, ranking high in deportment and class 
 work. He early exhibited a fondness for military 
 display, and so organized the boys of his age into 
 companies, marching them through the streets, and 
 when but about fifteen years old he became one of 
 the leading officers in a boys' artillery company, 
 which made quite a showing at the old May train- 
 ings and fall musters. He made the most possi- 
 ble out of the public and select schools in his 
 native town, and then attended for some time the 
 academy in Putney, Vermont. So with his natural 
 ability and diligence, when he reached his majority, 
 he was looked upon as one well fitted for his life 
 work. At twenty-one he was the picture of health, 
 being tall, straight, and of fine proportions ; his 
 complexion was light and florid. Looking at him 
 physically and mentally, he was a fine specimen of 
 a yoimg man. How could it be otherwise, being 
 of superior parentage? His father, David Wilkin- 
 son, Jr., was far more than the average man, physi- 
 cally and intellectually, and his mother, Patty (Hub- 
 bardj Wilkinson, was possessed of rare gifts as to 
 looks and character ; she was a Venus in face and 
 form, and a veritable Dorcas in her home and in 
 society. His pedigree away back is of a high 
 order. His grandfather, David Wilkinson, was a 
 grandson of Elijah Wilkinson, born in England, 
 and his great-grandmother was a native of Scot- 
 land. His grandfather, David, was one of the 
 foremost men in his native town, Sharon, Massa- 
 
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 119 
 
 chusetts. He became prominent in military affairs 
 before and after the Revolutionary \^'ar, and as 
 the alarm was sounded, April 19, 1775, he went 
 forth doing valiant service for his country. He 
 was with Washington's army at Valley Forge, and 
 was discharged with honors at the close of the war. 
 It is in no wise strange that the grandson, Solon 
 Stone Wilkinson, should have inherited a liking 
 for martial evolutions and chivalrous display ; how- 
 ever, he was brought up to labor as were his fore- 
 fathers, and, accordingly, he thoroughly learned of 
 his father the harness and saddler's trade in all its 
 details. As he advanced from an apprentice to a 
 journeyman he was well equipped for his business. 
 June 22, 1852, he married Chestina Eowker Hol- 
 man, an estimable young woman of ability and 
 promise ; two truer hearts were never wedded. 
 They located in Marlborough. Before his mar- 
 riage he became associated in business with his 
 older brother, \\'arren Wilkinson, in the harness 
 and saddle business, carrying it on in Marlborough 
 and Peterborough, New Hampshire, and in Green- 
 field, Massachusetts. In 1S54 he bought out the har- 
 ness and saddle business of his younger brother, 
 Cyrus K. Wilkinson, at Keene, New Hampshire, 
 and settled there with his family in a pleasant 
 home where they still reside. In 1S61 he went 
 into business with his brother, \^'arren, at Spring- 
 field, Massachu.'-;etts, manufacturing war equipments 
 on an extensive scale. In 1869 he became inter- 
 ested in the Monadnock Blanket Company and 
 was its Treasurer for fifteen years. In 1878 he 
 took into partnership Daniel McGregor, manufac- 
 turing harness in large numbers, emplo)'ing many 
 men, and doing an extensive business in selling 
 harness wares and trunks ; and they are still active 
 in trade. Mr. Wilkinson has alwa3'S been a public- 
 spirited man, being deeply interested in his nati\'e 
 town, his adopted city, his state, nation, and the 
 world. He was born of Whig ancestry, and has 
 been himself a wide-awake Republican since he 
 was old enough to vote. Slavery he abhorred and 
 worked with his might for its overthrow in this 
 country. While he never made any pretension to 
 learning or speech-making, nevertheless when forced 
 to speak on public occasions, he has been equal to 
 the responsibility and acquitted himself with honor. 
 He never has been an office-seeker, and the im- 
 portant public positions which he has filled, have 
 sought him, and every time he has added dignity 
 and character to them. As early as 1847 ^2 ^^'^s 
 commissioned First Lieutenant in the Fifth Com- 
 
 pany of the Twelfth New Hampshire Militia ; and 
 later he was foremost in organizing the Greenfield 
 Artillery Company at Greenfield, Massachusetts, and 
 was chosen its first commander, but he declined 
 to serve. In r86S he was sent to the State Legis- 
 lature, and was re-elected the following year. In 
 1875 h*^ "''"^s chosen Alderman from his ward for 
 two years in succession. In 1883 he was commis- 
 sioned Quartermaster-General on the staff of Gov- 
 ernor Hale. In 1886 he was made an honorary 
 member of the Keene Light Guards. He has been 
 for years a Trustee, and is now President, of the 
 Academy Fund Association of Keene, and has been 
 an efficient Trustee of the Five Cents Savina;s 
 
 / 
 
 S. S. WILKINSON. 
 
 Bank of his cit}'. He has always been a man who 
 has looked closel\' after his own business, feeling 
 this to be a necessity, to make it a success, as he 
 has ; j-et he has found time to perform creditably 
 outside duties which ha\'e been imposed upon him. 
 Now and then on some important occasions he has 
 indulged in outings. He was at the dedication of 
 the Washington monument on the banks of the 
 Potomac, and participated officially in the two 
 hundredth anniversary of the evacuation of New 
 York by the Ihitish. Mr. Wilkinson is social and 
 cordial, making his friends feel at once as they 
 come into his presence that they have got into 
 good company, and soon they are made aware that 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 he can give or take a good joke with grace. While 
 he admires the courage of a Cromwell, he does 
 enjoy the fun of a Falstaff. He shakes hands as 
 though there was a big heart close b}-, and when 
 he laughs there is an occasion for it, and like Doc- 
 tor Franklin's whistle, it comes itself, and all in 
 his company can but join in his hearty merriment. 
 His good nature and readiness to help others have 
 always drawn about him throngs of friends, ren- 
 dering him a most desirable member of social 
 organizations. In iS6o he was made a Mason in 
 Social Friends Lodge of Keene, becoming its Mas- 
 ter in 1865. He advanced through the Royal Arch 
 Chapter, becoming a Knight in Hugh de Payens 
 Commander)', and in 1878 was chosen its Eminent 
 Commander. He ranks high among the Free Masons 
 in his adopted city and in the state. Religiously 
 he is a Congregationalist, having been an active 
 church member for more than half a century, work- 
 ing on various lines, and for years he was a Teach- 
 er and then Superintendent in the Sunday-school. 
 While he is loyal to his church, he is no dogmatic 
 and narrow sectarianist. His home is the dearest 
 place to him on earth. He and his worthy and 
 beloved companion have long journeyed together 
 hand in hand and hearts made one. They have 
 been highly blest with a noble son, Edward Holman 
 Wilkinson, who is a prominent manufacturer at 
 Holyoke and a leading public man in Springlield, 
 Massachusetts. Mr. Wilkinson, though having 
 reached the allotted age of man, is well preserved, 
 vigorous and straight, and still active in business. 
 It would seem as if he had the constitution and 
 carefully preserved physical powers which promise 
 that his egress will be late to heaven. Unlike 
 gross Esau he never has sold his birthright for a 
 mess of pottage, but like Jacob he has discovered a 
 ladder of light reaching to heaven, and he has ever 
 been endeavoring to ascend it, and those who have 
 known him best believe that he has made good 
 progress and will at length be welcomed into the 
 fadeless light with the angelic plaudit, " Well 
 done," leaving a good name behind, and bearing 
 with hinr many a precious gift to enrich and beau- 
 tif)- the immortal life. 
 
 BEATTIE, William Johnson, Physician, Little- 
 ton, was born in Ryegate, Vermont, September 6, 
 1S64, son of James Milligan and Margaret Sophia 
 (Nelson) Keattie. His maternal grandfather, John 
 Nelson, was of Scotch descent, and was the first 
 male child born in Ryegate. His maternal grand- 
 
 mother was born in Acworth, New Hampshire, and 
 was of Irish descent. His grandfather, John Beat- 
 tie, was born in Orange county. New York. Doctor 
 Beattie received his education at the district school 
 of his native place, at Peacham Academy, and at 
 
 WILLLViM J. |:K.ATIIE. 
 
 St. Johnsbury Academy, Vermont. He was gradu- 
 ated from the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, 
 March 12, i88g. In the course of his studies he 
 spent a year in the hospital work. He began prac- 
 tice in Littleton, in May, 1889, and has remained 
 there ever since. He is a Mason, a Knight of 
 Pythias, a charter member of the Cohashauke Club 
 of Littleton. In politics, he is a Republican. He 
 married. May 29, 1890, Elizabeth A. Tuttle. They 
 have two daughters : Margaret, born January 18, 
 189 1, and Barbara Beattie, born December 28, 1897. 
 
 BRENNAN, James Francis, Lawyer, Peterbor- 
 ough, was born in that town March 31, 1853. His 
 father, Hubert lirennan, a native of Lavagh, County 
 Roscommon, Ireland, came to America in 1845, 
 settling six years later in Peterborough, where he 
 built up a large marble and granite business, and 
 by his public spirit and enterprise added greatly to 
 the niatei'ial advancement of the town. His 
 mother's maiden name was Mary Mahoney, a 
 native of Callan, County Kilkenny, Ireland. The 
 subject of our sketch received his preliminary edu- 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 121 
 
 cation in the common schools and academy of his 
 native village, and learned the trade of marble 
 carving at his father's establishment. In 1880, he 
 commenced the study of law in the office of Charles 
 Foe, Baltimore, and after a three years' course in 
 the Law School of the University of Maryland, 
 graduated in the class of '84, receiving the degree 
 of Bachelor of Law. He was admitted to practice 
 at the New Hampshire Bar, August 28, 1S84, the 
 United States Court the next year, and establishing 
 an office in Peterborough has since attained an 
 excellent law practice ; he is employed in much 
 important litigation, and is accorded the confidence 
 of the community in which he lives. Mr. Brennan 
 is a Democrat in politics and has clone efficient 
 work for his party on the stump. In the November 
 election of 1886 he ran largely ahead of the general 
 ticket as his party's candidate for County Solicitor, 
 this being the only time he has allowed his name 
 to be used as a candidate for a political office. He 
 is unmarried, has an extended acquaintance 
 throughout the state, and possesses a host of 
 friends. He has served on the board of Town 
 
 JAMES F. liRENNAN. 
 
 Auditors, Library Committee, School Board, and 
 Bank Director in his nati\e town. He is a lover of 
 books, and possesses a very fine law library. Mr. 
 Brennan 's career exemplifies what integrity and 
 unaided industry can accomplish. 
 
 BRO\\'N, Orance Scott, Resident Agent of 
 the Salmon Falls INIanufacturing Company, was 
 born in Slatersville, Rhode Island, son of Row- 
 land H. and Nancy M. (W'hitmarsh) Brown. 
 His father was a nati\'e of North Ringston, 
 
 o. S. r.ROWN. 
 
 Rhode Island, his mother of East Greenwich, 
 in that state. His father was of English descent. 
 He has long been connected with the Salmon Falls 
 Manufacturing Company, a corporation with a cap- 
 ital of six hundred thousand dollars, de\'otecl to the 
 manufacture of fine and fancy goods, sateens, etc., 
 and he has held the position of Agent for twenty- 
 three years. 
 
 BELLOWS, JosiAH Grahjie, Lawyer and Rail- 
 road Commissioner, \A'alpole, was born in that town, 
 July 24, 1841, son of Josiah Bellows, 3d. He is 
 sixth in descent from John Bellows, who embarked 
 for this country in the Hopewell, of London, April 
 1, 1635, and settled at Concord, Massachusetts. 
 His grandson. Colonel Benjamin Piellows, the great- 
 grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was the 
 founder of \^■alpole, a man of much note and influ- 
 ence on what was then known as the frontier. Jo- 
 siah Bellows, the youngest son of Colonel Benjamin 
 Bellows, passed his entire life inW'alpole as a farm- 
 er, managing with prudence and success his consid- 
 erable landed estate, which he inherited from his 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 father. Josiah liellows, 3d, who also spent his en- 
 tire life in \^'alpole, was a merchant and did a large 
 and successful business ; was interested to a consid- 
 erable extent in the fur trade in connection with 
 John Jacob Astor. As Josiah Grahme Bellows has 
 passed practically his whole lifetime in Walpole, the 
 family thus presents the unusual fact of three gen- 
 erations li\'ing out their lives in the village, covering 
 a period of one hundred and forty-six years. On 
 the maternal side, Mr. Bellows is descended from 
 the Newmans, an old Boston famih-, through his 
 great-grandmother, Margaret Newman, who married 
 just before the breaking out of the Re\'olution, Cap- 
 tain M'illiam Henrv Milliquet, then a Captain in the 
 English Army which garrisoned Boston under Gen- 
 eral Gage. The Captain left the army on his mar- 
 riage, and died soon after the Revolution in Eng- 
 land, where he was making a visit. His family was 
 one of considerable consequence in that country. 
 A daughter, Mary, the maternal grandmother of Mr. 
 Bellows, married Richard Gralime, an Englishman 
 of Scotch ancestry. Mr. Bellows was delicate in 
 boyhood, but by following the advice of the family 
 
 J- 
 
 ph)'sician, and living as much as possible in the 
 open air, he gradually strengthened his constitution 
 until he is able to do more than the average amount 
 of work. He was prepared for college in the \\'i\]- 
 pole High School, and in the pri\ ate school of E. 
 
 H. Barstow in Newton Centre, Massachusetts. He 
 entered Harvard College in 1859, ^'""^ ^^^^^ remain- 
 ing three months removed to Williams College and 
 for a year was a member of the class of 1863. His 
 health not being sufficiently established to bear 
 close confinement, he gave up the plan of complet- 
 ing a college course. About the beginning of 1862, 
 he began the study of law in the office of Hon. 
 Frederick Vose of \\'alpole. In March, 1863, he 
 entered Harvard Law School, and was graduated 
 in 1S65, when he entered the office of George, Fos- 
 ter & Sanborn, of Concord, being admitted to the 
 Bar of New Hampshire in the same year, at the 
 December law term of Merrimack county. Mr. 
 Bellows began the practice of law in Walpole about 
 January, 1866, but soon after his marriage in the 
 summer of that year he opened an office in Boston, 
 and remained there in business most of the time -^ 
 until 1872. For a year and a half of this time he 
 was Chief Clerk in the United States Pension Office 
 in Boston, and afterwards was located in the office 
 of Charles S. Lincoln, a native of Walpole. Six 
 months of 1871 he spent in European travel. Upon 
 the death of Mr. Vose, November 16, 187 1, Mr. 
 Bellows purchased Mr. Yose's law office in Walpole 
 and succeeded him in practice. He was appointed 
 Judge of Probate for Cheshire county, July 25, 
 1876, and held the position until January i, 1S94, 
 resigning to accept the appointment as Railroad 
 Commissioner of the State of New Hampshire. 
 He was re-appointed for three years by Governor 
 Ramsdell, and is Clerk of the Board. Governor 
 Smith in 1S94 appointed him a member of the com- 
 mission to ascertain and establish the true jurisdic- 
 tional line between Massachusetts and New Hamp- 
 shire, hi 1895, as Chairman of the Board, he pre- 
 pared an able report, which was duly submitted to 
 the Legislature. The plan of settlement which was 
 proposed was adopted by ALissachusetts and New 
 Hampshire and thus a long dispute was ended. 
 Mr. Bellows was a leader in the establishing of the 
 Savings Bank of Walpole, and he has been its 
 Clerk and Treasurer from its formation in 1875 ^o 
 the present time. He is a Director in the Keene 
 National PJank, and for many years a Trustee of 
 the Cheshire Provident Association of Keene. He 
 was Judge Advocate General on the staff: of Gov- 
 ernor Sawyer from i887-'89, and was President of 
 the State Republican Convention in 1890. He 
 has deli\-ered many addresses on important occa- 
 sions, among them, one to the citizens of \^'alpole 
 in memory of General Grant ; another and very 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 123 
 
 highly interesting sketch of Roger and Frederick 
 Vose at the annual meeting of the Southern New 
 Hampshire Bar Association in 1894. Mr. Bellows 
 married in Concord, June 26, 1866, Annie E. Mor- 
 rill who died in Cambridge, April 2, 1867. He 
 married in Walpole, November 21, 1877, Catherine 
 Hurd Walley, daughter of Aaron Prentiss and Hul- 
 dah (Burke) Howland. Mrs. Bellows comes from 
 old New P'ngland stock, and is a member of the 
 Colonial Dames of the State of New Hampshire, 
 and one of the Board of Managers. He has one 
 child : Mary Howland Bellows, born in Walpole, 
 September 18, 1878, now a member of the class of 
 1901 of Smith's College, Northampton, Massachu- 
 setts. 
 
 BRIGGS, J.-^MEs Frankland, I^awyer, Manches- 
 ter, Speaker of the New Hampshire House of Repre- 
 sentatives, was born in Bury, Lancashire, England, 
 October 23, 1827, son of John and Nancy (Frank- 
 land) ]3riggs. When he was less than two years 
 old, the family removed to this country and became 
 residents of Ashland, New Hampshire. In this 
 town the boy spent his early boyhood at work in 
 the mill. \\'hen he was fourteen years old, how- 
 ever, he attended the school at Newbury, Vermont, 
 afterwards studying at Tilton until 1S48. He took 
 up the study of law with William C. Thompson of 
 Plymouth, then with Joseph Burrows of Holder- 
 ness, and afterwards with Judge Nehemiah Butler 
 of Boscawen. He was admitted to the Bar in 185 i , 
 and immediately began practice at Hillsborough 
 Bridge, where he soon became one of the most 
 successful lawyers of the town. In i857-'58 and 
 '59, he was a member of the Legislature from Hills- 
 borough. When the war broke out he entered the 
 army, becoming Quartermaster of New Hampshire 
 Volunteers. In 187:, he removed to Manchester, 
 where he built up a lucrative business. He was 
 again elected a member of the House of Represen- 
 tatives in 1874. In 1876, he was elected to the 
 Constitutional Convention, and also the State 
 Senate. A year later he was nominated for Con- 
 gress and was three times elected, each time by an 
 increasing majority and serving with conspicuous 
 ability. He was again elected to the Legislature 
 in 1S83 ; in 1889 was a member of the Constitu- 
 tional Convention, and in 1891 was returned to the 
 Legislature. He served once more in this body at 
 the session of 1897, and was elected Speaker of the 
 House. Besides caring for the duties of his pro- 
 fessional work, Mr. Briggs has been active as a 
 
 projector of a number of enterprises. Among the 
 offices he has held are ; President of the Hillsbor- 
 ough National Bank ; President of the Granite 
 State Trust Company ; President of the Queen City 
 Land and Building- Association ; Director of the 
 
 JAMES F. IJRIGCS. 
 
 Citizens' Building and Loan Association, and of 
 the People's Gas Light Compan)-. Mr. Briggs was 
 married in 1850, to Ro.\anna Smith of Holderness. 
 They have had three children, two of whom are 
 now living. 
 
 CARVELLE, Henry DeWolfe, a Specialist in 
 Diseases of the E3re and Ear, Manchester, was born 
 in Richmond, New Brunswick, May 26, i8c;2, son 
 of James S. and Elizabeth (Porter) Carvell. In the 
 paternal line he is of Dutch descent, the family 
 having been long resident in England. One of his 
 ancestors fought with XN'illiam the Conqueror in the 
 liattle of Hastings. The name is prominent in 
 English history. The first Carvell to come to 
 this country settled in New Jersey, in the last 
 half of the seventeenth century. The family was 
 .strongly loyal in its sentiments, and the great- 
 grandfather of the subject of this sketch, Jacob 
 Carvell, was noted for his staunch adherence to the 
 Crown, and was imprisoned by the Revolutionary 
 party, but he escaped, and fought at the Battle of 
 Bunker Hill. At the close of the war, he, with 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 other loyalists, went to New lirunswick, and settled 
 there. Doctor Carvelle began his early education 
 in the public schools. In 1S73 he became Medical 
 Attendant at the Boston Eye and Ear Infirmary, 
 where he remained two years. He pin-sued his 
 studies through the guidance of Doctor Albert N. 
 lilodgett. Superintendent of the Institution. He 
 was graduated from the Harvard Medical College 
 in 1878, after a three years' course. He has at 
 various times taken special courses at New York, 
 Moorlields' Ophthalmic Hospital, London, England, 
 and the Eye and Ear Clinics of Paris. After leav- 
 ing college, he settled in Bo.ston for a short time, 
 but soon moved to Manchester. He continued in 
 
 II. Ji. CAkNI.I. 
 
 general practice until 1884, when he devoted him- 
 self to the treatment of the eye and ear. As a 
 specialist he ranks high, being the iirst ophthalmic 
 and aural surgeon in New Hampshire, and is fre- 
 quently called to all parts of the state in difficult 
 cases. During his last year at Har\ard College he 
 assisted Doctor Edward ^^'aldo Emeison in his 
 practice for a month, residing at the home of 
 Ralph Waldo Emerson, where his associations 
 with the distinguished family were exceedingly 
 delightful. He is Ophthalmic and Aural Surgeon 
 at the Elliott Hospital, Manchester, and Medical 
 E.xaminer for the Northwestern Life Insurance 
 Company. He is a member of the Calumet Club 
 
 of Manchester; of the New Hampshire Medical 
 Society; of the New England Ophthalmological 
 Society of Boston ; a Censor of the Medico-Chirur- 
 gical College of Philadelphia; an honorary mem- 
 ber of L. Webster Fox Ophthalmological Society of 
 Philadelphia, of the Ophthalmological section of 
 the American Medical Association, and of the Pan- 
 American Medical Congress. In politics he is a 
 Republican. Doctor Carvelle was married May 
 5, 1893, to Anna Brewster Sullivan, of Suncook, 
 New Hampshire. They have one child: Euphro- 
 syne P. Carvelle, born May 16, 1894. 
 
 CHASE, William Martin, Justice of the Su- 
 preme Court of New Hampshire, Concord, was 
 born in Canaan, New Hampshire, December 28, 
 1837, son of Horace and Abigail (Martin) Chase. 
 His father was the son of Joseph, the third child of 
 Moody, the tenth child of Joseph, the eighth child 
 of Moses, the eleventh child of Acquilla Chase, 
 who came from England to Hampton, New Hamp- 
 shire, and settled about 1639, taking an important 
 part in the development of the young community. 
 Judge Chase's mother was the daughter of William 
 Martin, son of Robert, son of \^'illiam, son of 
 Nathaniel, who came from Raphoe Parish, Donegal 
 county, Ireland, to Londonderry, New Hampshire. 
 ^^'illiam, son of Nathaniel, removed from London- 
 derry to Pembroke, New Hampshire, about 1763. 
 The subject of this sketch attended the common 
 schools, Canaan Union Academy, and, in the fall 
 of 1852, Kimball Union Academy. He was gradu- 
 ated from Dartmouth College, Chandler Depart- 
 ment, in 1848, and received the honorary degree of 
 A. M. from Dartmouth in 1879. During his col- 
 lege course he taught district schools, and after 
 graduation he taught mathematics and the sciences 
 in Henniker Academy. He was admitted to the 
 Bar in Merrimack county, on August 21, 1862, hav- 
 ing studied law with Anson S. Marshall, whose 
 partner he was from January, 1863, until the death 
 of Mr. Marshall, July 4, 1874, under the firm name 
 of Marshall & Chase. P'or the next five years he 
 was a partner of the late Chief Justice J. Everett 
 Sargent, under the firm name of Sargent & Chase ; 
 and from 1879 '^'^ ''^'''^^ ^ partner of Frank S. 
 Streeter, under the firm name of Chase & Streeter, 
 until March, 1891, when he was appointed Asso- 
 ciate Justice of the Supreme Court. During all 
 these years his practice was carried on in Concord. 
 He was Clerk of the New Hampshire Senate in 
 187 1 ; Trustee of the State Library, i874-'88; 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
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 Trustee of the State Normal School, iSyG-'yg; 
 one of the Commissioners to revise the Public 
 Laws under the act of July 30, 18S9, resultins^^ in 
 the adoption of the " Public Statutes ; " member of 
 the Board of Education of the Union School Dis- 
 trict at Concord in i869-'75, and i883-'96, hold- 
 ing the office of President of the Board for four or 
 five years of the latter term ; member of the Board 
 of Water Commissioners of Concord, iSyy-'gi ; 
 Trustee of Dartmouth College from 1890 to the 
 present time ; Director of the First National Hank 
 at Concord from 1S75 to the present time, being 
 President of the Bank in 1883 and 18S4 ; member 
 of the Committee for Examination of Students for 
 
 WM. JI. CHASE. 
 
 admission to the Bar, i878-'9i. He is an hono- 
 rary member of Phi Beta Kappa Society of Dart- 
 mouth College ; member of the New Hampshire 
 Historical Society ; member of the New England 
 Historical and Genealogical Society, and a member 
 of the Society of Sons of the American I-levolution. 
 In politics he is a Democrat. He married, March 
 18, 1863, Ellen S. Abbott, daughter of Aaron and 
 Nancy (Badger) Abbott of Concord. He has one 
 son: Arthur H. Chase, born February 16, 1864. 
 
 CLARK, Lewis Whitehouse, Chief Justice of 
 the Supreme Court of New Hampshire, Manches- 
 ter, was born in Barnstead, New Hampshire, Au- 
 
 gust 19, 1S28, son of Jeremiah and Hannah (W'liite- 
 house) Clark. lie was educated in 1-^ittsfield and 
 Atkinson Academies and at Dartmouth College, 
 from which he was graduated in the class of 1850. 
 He immediately began his special preparation for 
 his chosen profession and at the same time was 
 Principal of the Pittsheld Academy, from August, 
 1850, to December, 1S52, with eminent success. 
 He began his law studies with Moses Norris, con- 
 tinuing them under the direction of the Hon. A. 
 ¥. L. Norris, and on September 3, 1852, was ad- 
 mitted to the Bar of New Hampshire to commence 
 a career of professional service that has been alike 
 honorable to himself and creditable to the common- 
 wealth of which he is a citizen. He practiced law 
 in Pittsheld until April i, i860, but his abilities 
 were such as soon to call him to the metropolis of 
 the state, where he has since resided, one of its 
 best beloved citizens. He became a member of 
 the firm of Morrison, Stanley & Clark, his asso- 
 ciates being the Hon. George W. Morrison and the 
 Hon. Clinton W. Stanley. After remaining with 
 them for about seven years, he formed a law part- 
 nership with the Hon. Henry H. Huse. The firm 
 of Clark & Huse continued until May 24, 1872, 
 when Mr. Clark was appointed Attorney-General 
 of the state, a position he held with great credit to 
 himself and benefit to the state, until August, 1876. 
 His abilit)' and learning as a law3'er, his faithful 
 discharge of the duties of Attorney-General of the 
 state, and his marked judicial ability pointed to 
 him as the man to fill the vacancy which had oc- 
 curred on the Supreme Bench, and on August 13, 
 1877, he was appointed Judge of the Supreme 
 Court of New Hampshire, an appointment which 
 was highly satisfactory to the Bar of the state. 
 Politically, Judge Clark is a Democrat and while 
 not a partisan, has been a wise and honored leader 
 of the Democratic party. In 1865 he was the 
 nominee of his party for Congress, in the Second 
 Congressional District. He served as a member of 
 the Legislature from Pittsheld in 1856 and i8c;7. 
 Upon his elevation to the Supreme Bench, in 
 accordance with his high sense of honor, he with- 
 drew from active participation in politics, while he 
 still remained profoundly interested in all questions 
 relating to his country's weal. On the death of 
 Chief Justice Carpenter in May, 1898, Judge Clark 
 was appointed by Governor Ramsdell to fill his 
 place as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of 
 New Hampshire. The private character of Judge 
 Clark is one of stainless integrity. His mind is 
 
126 
 
 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 eminently one of self-poise and unusually perfect 
 adjustment. He possesses in an unusual degree 
 the power to grasp all sides of the questions that 
 come under his notice, and deal with them \yitli 
 calmness. He is preeminentl}' a lawj-er ; he loves 
 
 I.KUIS W. CLARK. 
 
 his profession, and whether at the bar pleading, or 
 on the bench deciding, he is always the searching, 
 candid, judicial-minded lawyer. Socially, Judge 
 Clark is cheerful, cordial, of great amiability, and 
 in all his bearing, through all, is marked by a 
 large-hearted kindness and perfect simplicity. His 
 whole character is permeated by profound religious 
 con\'iction. Personally he is a J3aptist, being one 
 of the staunchest supporters of the People's Taber- 
 nacle of Manchester. He is prominently identified 
 with the McAuley ^fission. As a citizen, his large 
 influence is eminently depended upon in behalf of 
 the public well being. In December, i8c;2, judge 
 Clark married I-Ielen M., daughter of Captain Wil- 
 liam Knowlton of Pittsfield. He has two children 
 now living : Mary Helen and John Lew Clark. 
 
 DAVENPORT, Jamks LeRoy, Fir.st Deputy 
 Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, District of 
 Columbia, was born in Hinsdale, New Hampshire, 
 [anuary 27, 1845, son of Lockhart and Mary C. 
 (Merrill) Davenport. The history of his paternal 
 line has been traced back to 1086, when the name 
 
 was spelled de Daunporte ; the de was dropped 
 from the name about 1288, since which time the 
 name has been spelled as at present. In this 
 country, the history of the family dates from 1640, 
 when there is a record of Thomas Davenport unit- 
 ing with the church of Dorchester, Massachusetts. 
 The subject of this sketch is descended in the 
 fifth generation from this Thomas, his grand- 
 father having been James Hart Davenport, and 
 his great-grandfather Charles Davenport. Charles 
 Davenport settled in Dummerston, Vermont, early 
 in the eighteenth century, and his descendants 
 are still living in the valley of the Connec- 
 ticut. James Hart Davenport settled in Hinsdale 
 before 1800, and his farm remained in the owner- 
 ship of the family until a recent date. On the 
 maternal side, Mr. Da\'enport is descended from 
 the Taylor and Stebbins families, both of which 
 were prominent in the early days of the country, 
 and his ancestors, on both sides, took an active 
 part in the Revolutionary War. Mr. Davenport 
 attended the common schools, and for two terms 
 studied at the Harris Academy, near Brattleboro, 
 Vermont. His father being engaged in the lumber 
 
 J. I.. DAVENl^ORT. 
 
 business, he was brought up to hard manual labor. 
 He was e.xtremely an.\ious to enter the army when 
 the war broke out, but his youth and his father's 
 objections stood in the way until the spring of 
 1864, when he was nineteen. He left home, and 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 127 
 
 immediately enlisted in Company B, Fortieth Wis- 
 consin Infantry. After his discharge from the ser- 
 vice, he returned to his native town, but removed to 
 Keene in 1866, and this has ever since been his 
 legal residence. He was employed from i866-'7o 
 in a clerical capacity in a large store in Keene ; 
 from iSyo-VSi he was travelling salesman for a 
 Boston wholesale and importing house. April 7, 
 1881, he was appointed clerk, class 4, in the Pen- 
 sion Bureau, and held various positions in the 
 Bureau until April 4, 1897, when he was appointed 
 by the President, First Deputy Conmiissioner of 
 Pensions. Mr. Da\'enport is a member of the 
 James A. Garlield Post, No. 7, Cirand Army of the 
 Republic, and of the Union Soldiers' and Sailors' 
 Alliance. He has always maintained his deep 
 interest in New Hampshire, and he says, although 
 he has been in many states and met many people, 
 he can say, with all truthfulness, to him New 
 Hampshire and her people are the dearest of all. 
 He was a member of the Republican State Central 
 Committee for many years, prior to April, i88t, 
 and has always been an ardent supporter of his 
 party. He prides himself upon the fact that he 
 has not missed voting in Keene at any important 
 election since 1866, when he attained the age of 
 twenty-one. Mr. Davenport was married Decem- 
 ber 6, 1S68, to Ella A. Carpenter. Two daughters 
 have been born to them : Mary Josephine, and 
 Fannie Arabella Davenport. 
 
 DAVIS, GeorCtE Mosks, Physician, Manchester, 
 was born in Norwich, Vermont, January 30, 1864, 
 son of Ira and Lucy A. L. (Crary) Davis. He is 
 of English descent. His grandfather lived in Nor- 
 wich, A'ermont, and was engaged in the horse trade, 
 sending his stock to Boston. His father was a 
 physician of Norwich, being born in Dracut, Massa- 
 chusetts, January 25, iSoi, and practicing in Nor- 
 wich, Vermont, until his death. Doctor Davis re- 
 ceived his education in the public schools in his na- 
 tive town and in Manchester, whither he came at the 
 age of eight. Later, he studied medicine with Doctor 
 Geo. C. Hoitt, entered Dartmouth Medical School 
 and was graduated in the class of '88. While in 
 college, he spent a year in Tewksbury, Massachu- 
 setts, Hospital. After his graduation he settled in 
 Norwich for a time, taking the practice of Doctor 
 S. H. Currier. Leaving A'ermont he spent another 
 year at the Tewksbury Hospital and then removed 
 to Bedford, New Hampshire. He practiced in 
 that town and in Merrimack for some years, but 
 
 lanuary i, 1S96, he removed to Manchester. He 
 served as hospital steward on the staff of Brigadier- 
 (ieneral 1). M. White. He is a member of the 
 State Medical Society, Lafayette Lodge of Masons, 
 Royal Arch Chapter; also of the Royal Arcanum 
 
 CEORCE M, Il.VVIS. 
 
 and United Workmen. Member of staff of Sacred 
 Heart Hospital. He married February 24, 1891, 
 Mabel Lena, daughter of Reuben and Minerva 
 Maxham Davis, of Nor\\ich. They have two chil- 
 dren : Hilda Lena and Harold Irving Davis. 
 
 DILLON, Michael Augustus, Clerk in the 
 United States I'reasury Department, Washington, 
 District of Columbia, was born in Middlesex vil- 
 lage, Chelmsford, Massachusetts, September 29, 
 1839, son of Patrick Dillon, a native of Cappoquin, 
 Ireland, and Johannah Deneane, of Tallagh, Ire- 
 land. He traces his descent from Irish and Nor- 
 man stocks. In 1852 the family nio\'ed from 
 Lowell, Massachusetts, to \\'ilton, New Hamp- 
 shire, where Mr. Dillon still has his legal resi- 
 dence. ]\Ir. Dillon attended the common schools 
 in Lowell, Massachusetts, and Wilton, New Hamp- 
 shire ; liryant and Stratton's Commercial College, 
 and the National LTniversity of ^^'ashington. He 
 studied law, and was graduated from the National 
 University Law School, May 28, 1873, ''^'''cl on the 
 following day was admitted to the Bar. He had 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 had an earh' training as a youth in business in 
 Cambridge and ]!oston, Massachusetts, but gave 
 up his employment to enter the Vohmteer x4_rmy on 
 April 22, 1 86 1, at the first call for troops. He 
 served from April 22, 1861, to October 18, 1862, 
 in Company G, Second New Hampshire Volun- 
 teers, and from September iS, 1863, to October 
 17, 1865, in the A'eteran Reserve Corps, as Com- 
 missary Sergeant, as a soldier of Afassachusetts. 
 He possesses a medal of honor voted him by Act 
 of Congress for gallant and conspicuous conduct 
 on four different battle fields. The battle of ^^'il- 
 liamsburg, Virginia, May 5, 1S62, was one of the 
 most hotly contested battles of the war, and during 
 one of the charges of the enemy, as it had been 
 found impossible to withdraw one of our batteries, 
 four guns fell into the hands of the enemy, as our 
 lines were being pressed back. Then occurred a 
 thrilling incident, -which displayed the undaunted 
 courage of young Dillon, and won for him the star 
 which Congress awarded for conspicuous bravery. 
 Seeing the pieces in the possession of the enemy, 
 he sprang forward, begging his comrades to follow 
 and retake the guns. They were all 3'ouths, and 
 he the 3'oungest. His Lieutenant, seeing him thus 
 exposed to the enemy's fire, and apprehending that 
 it would be concentrated upon the position which 
 that portion of the brigade occupied, shouted to 
 him the order, " Get clown ! You are drawing the 
 enemy's fire." Young Dillon's reply was more 
 dauntless than refined — "What in hell are we here 
 for? Come on, boys, come on! We must not let 
 them take that battery." And with his arms raised 
 on high, beckoning his comrades to follow, he ral- 
 lied a gallant group, and rushed into the thickest 
 of the fight, and the battery was rescued. Dillon 
 was stricken in the leg by a ball, which felled him, 
 but a moment before the recapture, and was check- 
 ing the flow of blood from the wound, while he was 
 venting his wrath in forcible language at the crueltv 
 of fate, which had wrested his musket from his 
 grasp by an exploding shell, and shattered it into 
 fragments. Having hastily stanched the flow of 
 blood, he pluckily resumed his place, and con- 
 tinued the fight until he had the satisfaction of 
 witnessing the repulse of tlie charge. On the i8th 
 of June, prior to the battle of (")ak Grove, General 
 Hooker called for volunteers to capture a redoubt 
 on the right of the Williamsburg Road. Young 
 Dillon was the first to respond, by stepping to the 
 front. His Lieutenant ordered him to fall back, 
 remarking as he did so, '• We cannot spare you. 
 
 There is going to be desperate work to-day, and 
 we need vou with us." Dillon replied, " General 
 Hooker needs desperate work done, and has called 
 for volunteers, and I am going." With that, he 
 seized his musket, and joined the forlorn hope. 
 Away they started, and were soon charging across 
 an open field, in the face of a deadly fire from 
 artillery and musketry, leaving many a comrade 
 dead or wounded as they advanced, upon the run. 
 The redoubt was reached ; the parapet gained ; 
 and among the first was Dillon to participate in the 
 short, sharp, deadl)' conflict which insured victory 
 to the gallant band. They captured many pris- 
 oners, and held the fort until General Hooker 
 
 
 M. A. DILLON. 
 
 could advance his lines, and take permanent pos- 
 session. Then they returned to their respective 
 regiments, to be acclaimed in deafening shouts the 
 heroes of the occasion, and to take part in the 
 battle that followed, known as the battle of the 
 Williamsburg Road. A week after, while there 
 was a lull in the front of the Second New Hamp- 
 shire f<_egiment, young Dillon performed an act 
 that exhibited his coolness, as well as his disregard 
 of the peril to which he, without orders, exposed 
 himself. He crawled on his hands and knees 
 through the grass and among the bushes in ad- 
 vance of the line into the enemy's camp, over- 
 heard the details of the plans which Longstreet 
 had determined upon, safely returned, and commu- 
 
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 nicated to General Hooker what he had overheard, 
 and thereby enabled that General so to re-arrange 
 his force as to repulse the enemy. This battle was 
 but a prelude to that deadly series of conflicts 
 known as the se\'en days' right, which disastrously 
 terminated the Peninsula Campaign of 1862. In 
 these Dillon participated, eliciting from his supe- 
 rior officers commendations for being at all times 
 present for duty, and for the display of the same 
 undaunted courage for which he had early gained 
 an enviable reputation. He also won a place in 
 the hearts of his fellows by timel)- and tender aid 
 rendered to the wounded, and by the constant and 
 generous acts of comradeship which liave made 
 him deservedly popular. At the battle of Grove- 
 ton, or, as it is sometimes called, the Second Isattle 
 of Bull Run, August 29, 1862, Dillon again distin- 
 guished himself, and was most seriously wounded. 
 No description can be more graphic than that 
 found in the official reports of the contending Gen- 
 erals. Of the attack of Grover's ISrigade, in which 
 was the Second New Hampshire, the Confederate 
 General, Jackson, says : "The Federal Infantry in 
 large force advanced to the attack of our left, occu- 
 pied by the Division of General Hill. It pressed 
 forward, in defiance of our fatal and destructive 
 fire, with great determination, a portion of it cross- 
 ing a deep cut in the railroad track, and penetrating 
 in heavy force an interval of nearly one hundred 
 and seventy-five yards, which separated the right 
 of Gregg's from the left of Thomas's brigade. For 
 a short time Gregg's brigade on the left was iso- 
 lated from the main body of the command : but 
 the Fourteenth South Carolina Regiment, then in 
 reserve, with the Forty-fifth Georgia Brigade, 
 attacked the exultant enemy with vigor, and drove 
 them back across the railroad track with great 
 slaughter. The opposing force at one time deliv- 
 ered their volleys into each other at the distance of 
 ten paces.'' General Grover in his report says, 
 " After rising the hill under which my command 
 la)-, an open field was entered and from one edge 
 of it gradually fell off in a slope to a valley through 
 which ran a railroad embankment. Beyond this 
 embankment the forest continued, and the corres- 
 ponding heights beyond were held by the enemy in 
 force supported by artillery. At 3 p. m. I received 
 an order to advance in line of battle over this 
 ground, past the embankment, enter the woods be- 
 yond, and hold it. We rapidly and firmly pressed 
 upon the embankment, and here occurred a short, 
 sharp, and obstinate hand to hand conflict with bay- 
 
 onets and clubbed muskets. Many of the enemy 
 were bayonetted in their tracks, others struck down 
 with the butts of pieces, and onward pressed our 
 line. In a few yards more it met a terrible fire 
 from a second line, which in its turn broke. The 
 enemy's third line now bore down upon our thinned 
 ranks in close order, and swept back the right cen- 
 ter. I tried to turn this flank, but the breaking 
 of our right and center and the weight of the ene- 
 my's lines caused the necessity of falling back, first 
 to the embankment and then to our first position, 
 behind which we rallied to our colors." It was 
 while the Second New Hampshire was doggedly 
 retreating, step by step, and attempting to form 
 a new line, that the enemy in turn made a charge 
 upon them. Dillon singled out the color bearer of 
 the Forty-ninth Georgia and laid him in the dust, 
 but he himself dropped, shot through the lungs, 
 at the same moment, the bullet passing through 
 his body and breaking three ribs. Notwithstand- 
 ing such a severe injury, he finally recovered, re- 
 enlisted and ser\'ed two years and two months to the 
 credit of Massachusetts. Since his retirement from 
 the army he has been clerk in the United States 
 Treasury Department and has had four promotions. 
 Among the positions he has held, civil, political 
 and military, are, Captain First Company, Union 
 A'eteran Corps, District of Columbia, 18S5 ; Com- 
 mander George G. Meade Post, Grand Army of 
 the Republic, District of Columbia, i8Si-'S2-'83 ; 
 Commander of Lafayette Post, (jrand Army of the 
 Republic, 1897 ; Founder and Commander-in-Chief 
 Union A'eterans Union, i8S6-'87 ; Founder and 
 Commander of Medal of Honor Legion, 1890- '91^ 
 '93, and member of Harmony Lodge, Free and Ac- 
 cepted Masons from 1864 to present time, and Col- 
 umbia Royal Arch Chapter. He was a pioneer in 
 the organizing of the Grand Army of the Repub- 
 lic, Woman's Relief Corps, Sons of Veterans, the 
 National Reunion Monument Association, formed 
 to erect a monument to the rank and file of sol- 
 diers, sailors and marines, who served from 1861 to 
 1865 ; and was a charter member of the Washing- 
 ton Aid Association of the ex-Confederates Sol- 
 diers' Home at Richmond, Virginia. He has trav- 
 eled all over the ITnited States from one end of the 
 country to the other, and has made extensive tours 
 in Ireland, England, Wales, France, Italy, Switzer- 
 land, (Germany, Holland, Belgium, but as he him- 
 self declares, he is more sure than ever that "there 
 is no pl^ace like home." Mr. Dillon married, July 
 I, 1866, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, Theresa 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 Quinn of that citv. Thev have had five children : 
 Mabel Thaw, who died in infancy ; Bessie Quinn 
 (now Sturtevant) ; Rose Collier, Agnes Burchard, 
 and Marie Augusta Dillon (now Rockwell). 
 
 DOYLE, Jeremiah Joseph, Lawyer, Nashua, 
 was born in New Boston, New Hampshire, January 
 23, 1S61, son of John and Julia (O'Neil) Doyle. 
 He comes of the good red-blooded County Kerry 
 stock, which does not a\'oid its share of fighting; a 
 brother of 'Mr. Dovle was killed in the Civil War, 
 and an uncle on his fathers side served in the Civil 
 War. As a boy he attended the schools of Milford 
 and Amherst, New Hampshire. Later on, he studied 
 
 J. J DOYLE. 
 
 law, reading in the office of George B. French for 
 three years, and taking a special course of a year 
 in Boston University I^aw School. He was admitted 
 to the Bar August 28, 1S84, and the next day opened 
 an office in Nashua, where he has since practiced 
 his profession. He has held e\'ery oflice in the gift 
 of the Ancient Order of Hibernians of New Hamp- 
 shire, being Division President for two years, Treas- 
 urer for two years, State President for four, and a 
 Delegate to the National Convention of the order, 
 in Omaha. He was the First Chief Ranger of 
 ( 'ourt Indian Head, of Nashua, Foresters of Amer- 
 ica, and held the ofifice two years ; was Second 
 Grand Chief Ranger of the state, and also Grand 
 
 Chief Ranger of the state ; attended the National 
 Con\entions at Brooklyn and Cleveland, and is now 
 Sub State Deputy, and also a Supreme Trustee of 
 the Foresters of America. He attended the Denver 
 convention in August, 1897, as a member of the 
 Supreme Court of Foresters, He was the First 
 Grand Knight of the Knights of Columbus, of 
 Nashua. Mr. Doyle has been very active in poli- 
 tics. He has attended every state Democratic con- 
 vention since he became a voter, and was a delegate 
 to the National convention of 1S96, at Chicago, and 
 the only New Hampshire delegate who voted 
 for William J. Bryan, and supported the Chicago 
 platform. F'or years he has been a member of the 
 State, County, and City Democratic Committees. 
 He has served as Alderman, Representative in the 
 Legislature, and City Solicitor. He married Luella 
 J. Lucier. They have five children: Lillian E., 
 Paul J., Robert J., Mary J., and Jeremiah J. Doyle, 
 Ji-- 
 
 E7\STMAN, John Robie, Professor of Mathe- 
 matics, United States Na^'y, and Astronomer in the 
 Naval Observatory, Washington, District of Colum- 
 bia, was born in Andover, New Hampshire, July 
 29, I S3 6, son of l^oyal E. and Sophronia (Mayo) 
 Eastman, On the paternal side he is descended in 
 the eighth generation from Roger Eastman, who 
 landed in Salem, Massachusetts, in 163S. Jeremiah 
 Eastman, great-grandfather of the subject of this 
 sketch, who was born in 1732, and who died in 
 1802, was in the Colonial Congress at Exeter, from 
 Deerfield, Northwood, and Nottingham, all but one 
 year during the Revolution, and was in the first 
 New Hampshire Constitutional Convention. Mr. 
 Eastman's line of descent is traced : Roger, 161 1- 
 1694; John, r64o-i72o; Zachariah, born 1679; 
 Jeremiah, born 1704; Jeremiah, 1732-1802; Eph- 
 raim, 1768-1853, and Royal F. Eastman, 1805- 
 186S, On the maternal side Mr. Eastman is de- 
 scended in the ninth generation from John Mayo, 
 who died in 1676, and who was the first Pastor of 
 the North Church, in Boston. Thomas Mayo, 
 great-great-grandfather of Mr. Eastman, was a pri- 
 vateersman in Re\'olutionary days, and died from 
 the effects of confinement in a prison ship in New 
 York harbor. Mr. Eastman attended the common 
 schools, and the Academy at Andover, and the 
 Academy at New London. He passed through the 
 last two years of the Chandler Scientific School 
 course at Dartmouth College, and was graduated in 
 1862. His early training for active life was upon 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
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 the farm, but he taught school more or less from 
 1853 to 1862, inclusive. He passed the examina- 
 tion, and was appointed Assistant in the United 
 States Naval Observatory in Washington, on Novem- 
 ber 7, 1S62. On the recommendation of the Super- 
 intendent and of the Assistant A.stronomer of the 
 Naval Obser\ator_v, he was appointed Professor of 
 Mathematics, United States Navy, with the rank of 
 Lieutenant-Commander, on February 17, 1865, and 
 has been stationed at the Observatory ever since 
 that date, doing astronomical work, except when 
 sent away on special scientific expeditions. Since 
 his appointment as Professor in the Navy, he has 
 been promoted to the rank of Commander and Cap- 
 
 J. R. EASTMAN. 
 
 tain. I-'rofessor Eastman served in the trenches 
 about Washington at the time of General Early's 
 raid, July 12 and 13, 1864. He was \'ice-Presiclent 
 of the American Association for the Advancement 
 of Science, in 1887 and 1892. In the latter year 
 he was President of the Cosmos Club of Washing- 
 ton, District of Columbia; and in 1889, he was 
 President of the I^hilosophical Society, of that city. 
 In 1S98, he uas elected the P'irst President of the 
 Washington Academy of Sciences. In politics he 
 is a tariff for revenue, gold standard, honest money 
 Democrat. Professor Eastman married, December 
 25, 1S66, Mary J. Ambrose, of Boscawen, New 
 Hampshire. 
 
 EMERY, Matthew (}aui.t, the last Mayor of 
 Washington, District Columbia, was born in Pem- 
 broke, New Hampshire, September 28, 1818, son of 
 Jacob and Jane (Gault) Emery. He was one of six 
 brothers, all of whom were born and spent their 
 youth on the farm which had been their grand- 
 father's, and upon which their father, Jacob Emery, 
 was born and spent his life, and where he died in 
 1868 at the age of ninety-two. The pioneers of 
 the family in this country were two brothers, John 
 and Anthony Emery, who emigrated with their fam- 
 ilies from Romse)', Plants, England, landing in Bos- 
 ton, April 3, 1635, and settling in " <Tuld Newber- 
 rie " in the Massachusetts colony. It is on record, 
 twenty years later, that John, the great-great-great- 
 great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was 
 fined four pounds, with costs and fees, for obeying 
 the dictates of a kind heart, and a conscience 
 enlightened beyond his day and generation. His 
 offense against the laws of the colony appears to 
 have been the hospitable entertainment of two 
 Quakers, conduct, the enormity of which was 
 increased by his using argument as to the lawful- 
 ness of his course. Although the Selectmen of his 
 town and fifty citizens, a considerable number in 
 those days of sparse population, signed a petition to 
 have his fine remitted, it was not done. Joseph 
 Emery, grandfather of Matthew Gault Emery, 
 served for six years in the War of the Re\'olution, 
 first as Lieutenant and afterwards as Captain in 
 the Thirteenth Regiment of the New Hampshire 
 Militia. Matthew Gault, grandfather in the mater- 
 nal line, served four years in the patriot armjr, hav- 
 ing enlksted July 11, 1775, at the age of nineteen. 
 His regiment of rangers, raised b)' the colony of 
 New Hampshire, served first in Colonel Montgom- 
 ery's division of the Continental Army. Matthew 
 Gault subsequently became a member of Captain 
 McConnell's company with which he marched to 
 Bennington and Stillwater. Matthew Gault Emery 
 attended the best schools and academies of his 
 native town, and his father desired to have his edu- 
 cation completed at Dartmouth College. However, 
 to the disappointment of the father, the son decided 
 to forego a college training and begin business life 
 at once; and in 1837, when he was eighteen years 
 old, he left his home on the farm and went to I3alti- 
 more, where an elder brother was then living. It 
 was in that city that Mr. Emery settled upon his 
 future business, that of a builder and architect. As 
 was customary in those days of thorough and ener- 
 getic preparation for life's work, he began with the 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 necessary manual training and patiently served the 
 time required to make himself a skilled stonecutter. 
 He received his first government contract in 1S40, 
 going with a force of men to the quarry where he 
 directed the cutting of the stone for the postoffice 
 department building in Washington, District of 
 Columbia. He established his permanent resi- 
 dence in that city in 1S42. His residence there 
 having debarred him from participating in the gen- 
 eral elections of the country, he has voted for but 
 one presidential candidate, William Henry Harri- 
 son, whom he saw inaugurated, but he has had a 
 personal acquaintance with all the Presidents except 
 the five preceding William Henry Harrison. Mr. 
 
 Emery's work as a contractor and architect on pub- 
 lic buildings in Washington brought to him applica- 
 tion for his ser\'ices from all parts of the country. 
 He did much of the stone work of the Capitol, and 
 cut and laid the cornerstone for its extension in 185 i 
 when I)aniel Webster deli\ered the oration. He 
 also cut and squared, free of expense, and on July 
 4, 1S48, himself laid the cornerstone of the Wash- 
 ington monument, for which he received the thanks 
 of the Poard of Directors in a series of resolutions, 
 having among its signers, John Quincy Adams, 
 Henr}' Clay, and Robert C. Winthrop. When the 
 capstone of the monument was set in place, in 1884, 
 marking the completion of the great work, Mr. 
 
 Emery was one of the invited guests. Pefore the 
 breaking out of the war, Mr. Emery had organized 
 a militia compan)' of which he was made Captain. 
 His commission, signed b)' President Lincoln and 
 Simon Cameron, then Secretary of War, bears date 
 of May 16, 1861. His company did patrol service 
 for the protection of the government buildings until 
 the arrival of the volunteer troops. During the 
 war, Mr. Emery was Treasurer of the New Hamp- 
 shire Soldiers" Aid Association, and took charge of 
 the sick and disabled soldiers from his native state, 
 in the discharge of these duties having occasion to 
 visit Getty.sburg and other battlefields. Earl}' in 
 the war he gave up his home at Brightwood, a 
 northern subiu'b of Washington, for the use of the 
 army. Being the highest point of land in that part 
 of the country, it was made a signal station, and 
 many were the messages transmitted between it and 
 the dome of the Capitol. As he was known to take 
 a deep interest in the improvement of the city, the 
 services of Mr. Emer)' were much sought in various 
 offices under the local government. He was for 
 several years a member of the Board of Aldermen. 
 In 1S70, after a memorable struggle, he was elected 
 Mayor as a citizens" candidate by a majority of 
 three thousand one hundred and ninety-four, every 
 ward giving him a plurality of votes. He was the 
 last Mayor of Washington, the territorial form of 
 government, which had long been under consid- 
 eration, being finally adopted by congressional 
 enactment before his term of office expired. In his 
 inaugural address as Mayor, Mr. Emery said, " I 
 am a Republican, but my Republicanism is based 
 on principle, and is not mere partisanship. I claim 
 no right which I am not willing to accord to all 
 Americans without regard to race or religion." It 
 is a matter of record that he scrupulously redeemed 
 the promises of his inaugural address, and fulfilled 
 all the duties of his office with great credit and 
 ability. In 1872, at the end of thirty years' labor 
 in the business of builder, contractor, and archi- 
 tect, Mr. Emer)-, in accordance with a resolution 
 formed at the time of entering upon that business, 
 disposed of his interest to his brother, Samuel 
 Emery, and has since devoted himself to other 
 enterprises. Mr. Emery has always been known 
 for his active personal interest and undertakings of 
 a religious and charitable nature. He was one of 
 seven persons who organized the Metropolitan 
 Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church of Wash- 
 ington, and for nearly thiity years has been Presi- 
 dent of its Board of Trustees, a body of which 
 
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 133 
 
 General Grant was a member. He was a Regent 
 of the Smithsonian Institution, and was for a long- 
 period Trustee of Dickinson College at Carlisle, 
 Pennsylvania. For many years he has been a 
 Regent and Vice-Chancellor of the National Uni- 
 versity. He is also a Regent, one of the incorpo- 
 rators and Treasurer of the American University. 
 For about twenty years he was Treasurer of the 
 Associated Charities of the District of Columbia. 
 He aided in 1S54 in procuring the charter of the 
 Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and was made its 
 Treasurer, and has served continuously since that 
 time as a Director and is now its President. He 
 Avas for some time President of the F'ranklin Insur- 
 ance Company and of the National Capital Life 
 Insurance Company ; a Director of the Metropoli- 
 tan Insurance Company, and first Treasurer of the 
 Metropolitan Street Railway Company. He aided 
 in organizing the \\'ashington Market House Com- 
 pany, of which he has been President for many 
 years. He was long a Director of the United 
 States Electric Lighting Company of Washington, 
 serving for part of the time as \'ice-President. At 
 an early date he was a Director of the Patriotic 
 Bank, and afterwards, in connection with Mr. Fitz- 
 hugh Coyle, established the Bank of the Republic, of 
 which he was a Director for eight years, for one year 
 being the acting President. He was elected Presi- 
 dent of the Second National Bank in 1S77, and has 
 held the position ever since. He was one of the 
 organizers and for twenty years a Director of the 
 National Savings Bank, and he is now a Director in 
 the National Safe Deposit, Savings and Trust Com- 
 pany, its successor. He is also a Director of the 
 American Security and Trust Company and one of 
 its Executive Committee. The home of the Emery 
 family in Washington is one of a row of three 
 houses built in i860 by Stephen A. Douglas, John 
 C. Breckinridge, and Senator Rice. The house was 
 not entirely finished when the war broke out and 
 was used by the government for hospital purposes. 
 After the close of the war the house was completed, 
 and was soon after bought and presented to Gen- 
 eral Grant by his friends. Here he lived until he 
 went to the White House as President. The house 
 was afterwards bought and presented to (ieneral 
 Sherman. It was then purchased by Mr. Emery 
 and has since been his home. 
 
 son of Horace M. and Maria (Batchelder) Emmons. 
 On the paternal side he comes of a family which 
 has been identified with the history and develop- 
 ment of Bristol for over one hundred and fifty 
 years, w hile the Batchelders ha\'e been residents of 
 Reading, Massachusetts, for two hundred and fifty 
 years. Mr. Emmons attended the public schools of 
 Bristol, completing his course of study in the New 
 Hampton Institute at the age of eighteen years. 
 For two years he was employed in a provision store 
 in Bristol, removing frum that town to Concord. 
 Subsequently he established himself in business in 
 Tilton. In 1871, he returned to Concord, where he 
 has since been engaged in the meat and provision 
 
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 EMMONS, Gardner Batchelder, State Senator 
 and a successful business man of Concord, was 
 born in liristol. New Hampshire, February 18, 1847, 
 
 C. K. KMllONS. 
 
 business. He is half owner of the Concord Coal 
 Company; a Director in the Concord Street Rail- 
 way Company ; a Trustee in the Union Guaranty 
 Savings Bank, and a Director and leading spirit in 
 the Concord Cattle Company, the headquarters of 
 which are at Miles City, Custer count)', Montana. 
 He has served four years on the Board of Aldermen 
 in Concord, and in 18S9 he was a member of the 
 House of Representatives in the Legislature. He 
 was nominated in 1896, for State Senator by acclam- 
 ation, and was elected by a larger majority than had 
 been received by any of his predecessors. Mr. 
 Emmons is a voter in Ward Six, in Concord. In 
 politics he is a Republican. l'"or a cpiarter of a 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 century he has been a member of the First Baptist 
 Society of Concord, and for seven years acted as 
 Trustee and Treasurer. He lias long been con- 
 nected with \\'hite Mountain I^odge, Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows. He is a member of the 
 ^^'onolancet Club, the leading social organization of 
 Concord. Mr. Emmons was married, November 
 26, 1868, to Sara Jane P'landers, of Concord. 
 The)' ha\'e four children, three of whom are living : 
 Harry G., a dry-goods merchant in Concord ; Oscar 
 F., also residing in that city, and Harriet D. 
 Emmons. 
 
 FEI^REN, EiiKNKZER, Retired Merchant, Man- 
 chester, was born in Goffstown, New Hampshire, 
 Februar)' 12, 1817, son of Ebenezer and Mary 
 (Eaton) Ferrin. His father, who was born in 
 Goffstown, January 24, 17S0, was a son of Philip 
 Ferren, who was the First Lieutenant of the First 
 Company of the Ninth Regiment of New Hamp- 
 shire militia, served in the Revolution, and passed 
 the famous winter at Valley Forge. In the mater- 
 nal line, Mr. Ferren traces his descent from the 
 
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 KHENEZER FERREN. 
 
 John Eaton family of Haverhill, Massachusetts, 
 John Eaton being a descendant of Francis Eaton, 
 who came over in the " Mayflower " in 1620. His 
 grandfather on his mother's side, Samuel Eaton, 
 was a Revolutionary soldier and fought at the 
 
 battle of Iiiennington under General Stark. Mr. 
 F'erren attended the common schools at Goffstown 
 and was graduated on the road, selling goods and 
 in trade. He began his business career May 27, 
 1837, traveling until August, 1S45, when he opened 
 a dry-goods and carpet store in Manchester, and 
 there remained in business until 1865, when he 
 retired. Between 1848 and 185 i he bought consid- 
 erable real estate, which appreciated handsomely. 
 He has never held any political office, and has 
 always refused to ally himself in any way with 
 machine politics. He is a man of very strong con- 
 victions and is quoted as saying, " I have a God 
 that is worth more to me than all the money that 
 is made." Mr. Ferren has given much thought 
 and stud}' to the history of the Crucifixion, and is 
 convinced that he has established beyond doubt 
 the exact location of the points of greatest interest 
 to the Christian world in and near Jerusalem. He 
 has always been a temperance man, and in his 
 politics is a Prohibitionist. He was a delegate to 
 the Convention of that party in Indianapolis in 
 1 888 and to the Tenth National Temperance Con- 
 vention at Saratoga Springs in July, 1891. He 
 belonged to the Sons of Temperance as far back 
 as 1847. He is a member of the Fir.st Congrega- 
 tional church of Manchester, and was Treasurer of 
 the Sunday-school for ten years, from 18S3 till 
 1893, when he resigned. He married August 7, 
 1849, Adelaide E. Badger. 
 
 FERGUSON, John, Physician, Manchester, was 
 born in Ireland, in 1829, son of David and Cath- 
 erine Ferguson. He received his English and 
 classical education from the Order of Jesuits, of 
 which his uncle, Charles Ferguson, was President. 
 After completing his medical and surgical studies 
 in Ireland, he obtained a position as Surgeon on 
 an Atlantic mail steamer. Those in the old coun- 
 try had then but a crude idea of the United States 
 and Doctor F'erguson's first visit to New York sur- 
 prised and pleased him greatly. Visiting one of 
 the medical colleges, he went to the dissecting 
 room, always a favorite place with him, and intro- 
 duced himself to the students, then at work upon a 
 cadaver. Venturing some criticisms and sugges- 
 tions upon their work, which they took with perfect 
 good nature, he was overheard by the Demonstra- 
 tor, who cjuestioned him with regard to himself, 
 and offered him the position of Assistant Demon- 
 strator should he decide to settle in the States. 
 His contract with the steamer expiring soon after, 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 13s 
 
 Doctor Ferguson took this position and afterwards 
 became Post-Mortem Examiner for the Coroners of 
 New York. He remained in this capacity until the 
 Civil War began, when he became Surgeon of a 
 New York regiment and went to the front. Later 
 
 JOHN l'KR(.:USON. 
 
 he served in the same capacity in the Tenth New 
 Hampshire Regiment. His health partially failing 
 in a year or more, he resigned and removing to 
 Manchester, he commenced the practice of his pro- 
 fession in that city and has since remained there. 
 Dr. Ferguson was married in 1S61 to Elenora 
 Hughes of New York city. 
 
 GALLINGER, Jacob H., United States Sena- 
 tor, Concord, was born in Cornwall, Ontario, 
 March 28, 1S37, son of Jacob and Catherine 
 (Cookj Gallinger, On the paternal side he is of 
 Dutch descent, his grandfather having emigrated 
 from Holland, first to the United States, and then 
 to Canada. His mother was of American stock. 
 He was educated in the common schools and 
 academies, and studied with private tutors. He 
 learned the printing trade in early life, and for a 
 time published a newspaper. He has never lost 
 his interest in journalism, and has contributed 
 more or less to the newspapers all through his life. 
 In 1855 '^^ began the study of medicine in Cin- 
 
 recei\-ed the honorary degree of A. M. from Dart- 
 mouth College in 1S79. Doctor Gallinger began 
 the practice of medicine and surgery in Keene, 
 where he remained from October, i86i, until April, 
 1862, when he removed to Concord. There he 
 was engaged in the practice of his profession until 
 1885, when he was elected to Congress. Since he 
 entered the public service, he has gradually dis- 
 continued his practice. He was a member of the 
 New Hampshire Legislature in 1S72, 1873, and 
 1S91 ; of the Constitutional Convention in 1876 ; 
 of the State Senate in i878-'79-'8o, being Presi- 
 dent of that body for the last two years. He was 
 Surgeon-General of New FLimpshire, with the rank 
 of Brigadier-General, in i87g-'8o. From 1882 to 
 1S90 he was Chairman of the Republican State 
 Connnittee, and was Chairman of the delegation to 
 the Republican National Convention in 1888. He 
 was a member of the F'orty-ninth and Fiftieth Con- 
 gresses, and was elected to the United States 
 Senate in i8g:, and re-elected in 1897. He is at 
 present Chairman of the Senate Committee on 
 Pensions, and is also a prominent member of the 
 
 » J. H. (lALLINGER. 
 
 Committees on Commerce, District of Columbia, 
 Public Health and National Quarantine. In Wash- 
 ington, as he was in Concord, Senator Gallin- 
 ger is always a busy man. He is a Mason, an 
 
 cinnati, Ohio, and was graduated in 1858. He Odd F'ellow, and a member of the Order of Knights 
 
136 
 
 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 of Honor, of the Golden Cross, and other fraternal 
 orders ; and he is also a member of various social 
 clubs. In politics he has always been a stalwart 
 Republican. He was married August 13, i860, to 
 Mary Anna Bailey of Salisbury, New Hampshire. 
 They have had six children : Alice M., Harry B., 
 Katharine C, Annie B., William H., and Ralph E. 
 Gallinger, of whom Alice, Harry, and Annie are 
 dead. William H. and Ralph E. have adopted the 
 profession of medicine, and Katharine C. is the 
 wife of Harry B. Norton, Esq., of North Cambridge, 
 Massachusetts. 
 
 GREELFA', Arthur Philip, Assistant Commis- 
 sioner of Patents, \\'ashington. District of Colum- 
 bia, was born in Methuen, Massachusetts, son of 
 the Reverend Edward H. and Louisa M. (Ware) 
 Greeley. He comes of substantial English stock, 
 being a descendant of Andrew Greeley, who came 
 
 A. p. GREELEY. 
 
 to this country about 1630, and who was one of 
 the original proprietors of Salisbury, Massachu- 
 setts, where the family lived until 1735, when Jona- 
 than, great-grandson of Andrew, moved to East 
 Kingston, Since that time, the family has resided 
 in New Hampshire. Philip, son of Jonathan, born 
 in East Kingston in 1750, married Dolly Tilton in 
 1774, and moved to Hopkinton, where he became 
 a prominent citizen. He was Ensign in the Conti- 
 
 nental Army, Colonel of Militia and Justice of the 
 Peace, His son Edward moved to Claremont in 
 1 82 2. The Reverend Edward H, Greeley, father 
 of the subject of this sketch, was long connected 
 with the New Hampshire Missionary Society, and 
 well known throughout the state. He died in Con- 
 cord in 1S90. Mr. Greeley was graduated from 
 the Concord High School in the class of 1876, and 
 from Dartmouth College, with the degree of A. B., 
 in the class of 1883. He took his degree of EL. B. 
 from the Columbian University in 1S86, and the 
 degree of LL. M. in 1887. In the latter year, he 
 was admitted to the Bar in the District of Colum- 
 bia. He was appointed Assistant Examiner in the 
 Patent Office in 1884; Principal Examiner in 1891; 
 Examiner-in-Chief in 1895, and Assistant Commis- 
 sioner in 1897. His appointment as Examiner-in- 
 Chief was made by President Cleveland without 
 solicitation, and although in his politics he was 
 opposed to the administration, he was coniirmed by 
 the Senate without opposition. He was appointed 
 Assistant Commissioner of Patents in 1897 at the 
 request of Commissioner Butterworth, by President 
 McKinley, and was again confirmed by the Senate 
 without opposition. On the death of Mr. Butter- 
 worth in January, 1898, Mr. Greeley was strongly 
 urged for Commissioner, receiving the support of 
 the most prominent Republican Senators. Mr. 
 Greeley's appointment to the Patent Office was a 
 result of high standing in the first examination held 
 under the present Civil Service Law, and his pro- 
 motion has been solely upon merit. As Assistant 
 Examiner, he served in the division of metal work- 
 ing B and electricity B, in the latter division having 
 charge of the class of electric railways. When he 
 was appointed Principal Examiner, he was assigned 
 to a newly formed division comprising packing and 
 storing vessels, advertising, etc. He was trans- 
 ferred in 1894 to the division of instruments of 
 precision, and while in charge of this division for a 
 number of months was Examiner of Trade Marks. 
 From 1 89 1 -'93 he was a member of the committee 
 in charge of preparation, arrangement, and instal- 
 lation of the exhibit of the Patent Office at the 
 World's Fair, in Chicafro, this task involving; an 
 extended consideration of the development of 
 nearly every important art represented in the 
 Patent Office. He was also a member of the Com- 
 mittee in charge of the preparation and installation 
 of the Patent ( )ffice exhibit at Atlanta. During the 
 summer of 1897 he conducted an investigation into 
 abuses of Patent Office practice in a masterly and 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 137 
 
 effective wa}--, displaying judicial ability of a high 
 order. Mr. Greeley is a member of the Psi Upsi- 
 lon College Fraternity ; of the 11 B. French Lodge, 
 No. 15, Free and Accepted Masons; of Lafayette 
 Chapter, No. 3, Royal Arch, and Columbia Com- 
 mandery, No. 2, Knights Templar, District of 
 Columbia. Li politics he has always been a 
 Republican. He was married November 16, 1892, 
 to Helene H. ^f. Herzog. They ha\e two chil- 
 dren ; Arthur Edward, born September 23, 1894, 
 and Philip Herzog Greeley, born December 29, 
 1S96. 
 
 GROGAN, Frank Willis, Naval Architect, 
 ^^'ashington, District of Columbia, was born May 
 21, 1857, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, son of 
 John J. and Sarah A. (Shapleigh) Grogan. He 
 attended the public schools of I\)rtsmouth, and 
 was afterwards instructed by private tutors. At 
 the age of si.xteen, he began to learn ship building, 
 and served, until he was twenty-one, as regular 
 Government apprentice in the ICittery Navy Yard, 
 during which time he passed through \'arious 
 stages, such as handling and use of tools in ship 
 construction, launching and docking vessels, the 
 making of ships' models, laying down of vessels on 
 the mould loft floor, designing and calculations. 
 When he was twenty-one, he was appointed Na\'al 
 Draughtsman in the Kittery Navy Yard. Li 1881 
 he was ordered to report to the Committee of Naval 
 Construction, having charge of the new vessels of 
 the navy, in connection with the Advisory ];!oard, 
 when he was given charge of the design and calcu- 
 lations for a type of wooden gun-boat for Chinese 
 waters. In March, 1883, he was ordered by the 
 Secretary of the Navy to report to the Chief Con- 
 structor for temporary duty in the Jiureau of Con- 
 struction and Repair in the Navy Department at 
 Washington, his labors being directed to the design 
 of the first of the well-known \\'hite Squadron. 
 When the contracts of these vessels had been 
 awarded, he received orders to return to the Kit- 
 tery Navy Yard, to prepare for permanent duty at 
 the New York Navy Yard, where he remained two 
 years, then being called to the Navy Department in 
 December, 1885. In the course of his connection 
 with the Bureau of Con,struction and Repair, he was 
 intrusted with the most intricate work of that bureau, 
 and upon legislation for the first battle-ships being 
 secured, the Chief Constructor placed him in charge 
 of the designing, calculating, and preparation of the 
 plans of the coast line battle-ships Massachusetts, 
 
 Indiana, and Oregon, under the direction of the 
 l^ureau. Mr. Grogan resigned from this position 
 in April, 189 t, and, with the approval and concur- 
 rence of the late Commodore Theodore D. Wilson, 
 United States Navy, Chief Constructor and Chief 
 of the Bureau of Construction and Repair, and his 
 successor, Commodore L'hilip Fiichborn, and on 
 the recommendation of the late Rear Admiral 
 Richard W. Meade, United States Navy, he was 
 appointed as Assistant of the lioard of Manage- 
 
 FRANK W. r,ROf:AN. 
 
 ment of the United States (Government Exhibits at 
 the World's Columbian E.xposition, and ordered to 
 report for duty as Naval Architect and Chief Tech- 
 nical Assistant to the representative of the Navy 
 Department (Admiral Meade) on the Board, serv- 
 ing until its termination, in 1894. Among his other 
 duties was the designing of the full-sized model 
 battleship, Illinois, the conception of Admiral 
 Meade, and famous as the " brick ship," as an 
 exhibit for the Navy Department at the World's 
 Fair. In the summer of 1891, Mr. Grogan was 
 ordered to Chicago, personally, to supervise the 
 construction of the Illinois, and also was placed in 
 charge of the exhibits of the Bureau of Construc- 
 tion and Repair, and Bureau of Yards and Docks 
 of the Navy Department. At the dedication of 
 the World's Fair, in October, 1S92, he was pre- 
 sented by the Director)- with a medal, as one of 
 
13^ 
 
 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 the designers of the Exposition. He also designed 
 and superintended the building of the structure for 
 the exhibit of the International Navigation Com- 
 pany in the Transportation Building, consisting of 
 the amidships portion (full size) of the trans-Atlan- 
 tic liners, St. Louis and St. Paul, by which were 
 shown the passenger accommodations. He also 
 designed the buildings for the Naval Observatory 
 exhibit, and built by contract the sixteen and 
 twelve-inch cement guns for the Pennsylvania rail- 
 road to complete the exhibit for showing their 
 method of transporting heavy ordnance across the 
 continent. Mr. Grogan was a member of the Gen- 
 eral Oommittee, ^^'orld's Congress Auxiliary on 
 Engineering Congresses of the World's Exposition 
 of 1S93, of which E. L. Corthell was chairman, and 
 was a member of the Advisory Council of the Divi- 
 sion of Marine and Naval Engineering and Naval 
 Architecture, of which Commodore George W. 
 Melville, Engineer-in-Chief, United States Navy, 
 was Chairman, which was held under the direction 
 of the ^^'orld's Congress Auxiliary ; he was also an 
 honorary member of the Illinois Naval Reserve 
 Association. Mr. Grogan after the termination of 
 his work at the World's Fair, was again employed 
 by the Navy Department at Washington upon de- 
 signs for vessels for the Navy, and in connection 
 with this duty is acting in advisory manner to the 
 Hydrographic Inspector's office in the Coast and 
 Geodetic Survey, his duties pertaining to the de- 
 sign and construction of the Coast Survey vessels. 
 He is now detailed to Elizabeth, New lersey, to 
 superintend the construction of a steel coast survey 
 steamer for service in Alaska and the Alleutian 
 Islands. Mr. Grogan has been an active Odd Fel- 
 low. At the age of twenty-two he was made a 
 Noble Grand of Osgood Lodge, No. 48, Independ- 
 ent Order of Odd Fellows, and the following year 
 was made a Right Worthy Grand of New Hamp- 
 shire, and with one exception (in California) was 
 the youngest member of any Grand Lodge in the 
 countr}'. In the same year he was chosen Dictator 
 of Governor Goodwin Lodge, No. 1,661, Knights 
 of Honor. He was a member of the Portsmouth 
 City Council in 1882, and was re-elected in the fol- 
 lowing year. Mr. Grogan married Helen Thurs- 
 ton Jo\' of Portsmouth, and has four children : 
 Harley Hichborn, Fred Potter, Marian Willis, and 
 Earl Sullivan Grogan. 
 
 Rochester, Strafford county. New Hampshire, re- 
 sides in the house in which he was born, August 
 23, 1813, and is the son of Joseph and Charity 
 (Dame) Hanson. His father was born in Dover, 
 New Hampshire, in 1764, son of Humphrey Han- 
 son. He went when a young man to Rochester, 
 and engaged in the grocery business, in which he 
 continued until a few years before his death in 
 1832. His wife, the mother of the subject of this 
 sketch, was born in Rochester, September i, 1775, 
 and died February 3, 1833. They had ten chil- 
 dren, of whom only two sons are now living : Do- 
 minicus and Asa P. Hanson, now a resident of 
 Newton, Iowa. Joseph Hanson was a staunch 
 
 HANSON, DojiiNicus, a Wealthy Land Owner 
 and one of the oldest and best known citizens of 
 
 ]><>MINICUS HANSt)N. 
 
 Whig, but though often urged to accept public 
 office he invariably declined. Dominicus was edu- 
 cated in the Rochester common schools and Acad- 
 emy, Parsontield Seminary of Maine, and in the 
 Hopkinton and Pembroke Academies. In 1830, 
 when he was seventeen years old, he became an 
 apprentice of his brother-in-law. Doctor Smith, who 
 conducted a drug store, and in this employ he 
 remained two years, at the end of the time buying 
 out Doctor Smith, and afterwards managing the 
 business with the exception of a few years when he 
 was in school, until the fire of December, 1880, in 
 in which his store was burned. He subsequently 
 erected the fine building on the same site, now 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 139 
 
 occupied by R. DeWitt Rurnham, and he did not 
 personally take up the business, since then practi- 
 cally living in retirement. His residence was built 
 over one hundred years ago, the erection of which 
 was celebrated in the good old way of those days 
 in which the products of the West Indies and of 
 France were much in evidence at the time of lay- 
 ing the ridge pole, after which verses composed 
 for the occasion were read and the frame named 
 and christened the " General Washington," a cele- 
 bration in \\'hich all became most gloriously inter- 
 ested. The house then boasted of a line balustrade 
 around the roof, which has since been removed. 
 \Mien the railroads were built through Rochester, 
 he opened the thoroughfare known as Hanson 
 street through his garden and has ahva3-s main- 
 tained it at his own expense, spending nian\' thou- 
 sands of dollars to keep it in pioper condition. 
 He also owns valuable real estate in and around 
 Central Scjuare. Mr. Hanson married, September 
 19, 1839, 15etsey S. Chase, daughter of Simon 
 Chase of Milton, who conducted a mercantile busi- 
 ness in Rochester. Two sons were born to them : 
 Charles A. C., born August 18, 1844, and George 
 \\'ashington Hanson, born July 6, 1854, and died 
 January 6, 1S56. The elder son has always kept a 
 residence in Rochester, although for several years 
 he has been in business in New York city, first in a 
 drug store and later establishing a lithographic 
 plant. He has now severed his business connec- 
 tions there, and spends the greater part of his time 
 in Rochester. It is to this son that the credit is 
 due for the establishment of the Old Cemetery 
 Conservation Fund — Perpetua — for the .perpetual 
 care and improvement of the old cemetery. Pie 
 bore the original e.\pense of over three hundred 
 dollars from his own pocket, and raised a fund of 
 about five- thousand dollars, which he turned over 
 to the town for the purpose specified. While 
 engaged in making final arrangements for the com- 
 pletion of this work, he was severely injured by an 
 elevator and crippled for life. Dominicus Hanson 
 was an earnest supporter of General Jackson for 
 President at the time of his candidacy for the sec- 
 ond term, though he was not old enough to vote. 
 His first ballot was cast for Martin Van Buren, and 
 he has voted at every election since that time. 
 Before attaining his majority he was appointed 
 Postma.ster by General Jackson, and he continued 
 to hold the office under the administrations of Van 
 Buren and Harrison. He was a Director of the 
 Norway Plains Savings Bank for a number of 
 
 years. In religious views Mr. Hanson is a Eiberal. 
 Although specially interested in the Universalist 
 faith, he is kindly disposed to all, believing in the 
 Fatherhood of God. and the Brotherhood of Man, 
 and a higher and better life for all. No man is 
 more highly esteemed and uni\'ersally respected by 
 his many friends. 
 
 HASKELL, Peart, Tknney, Physician, San- 
 bornville, was born in Deering, Maine, March 10, 
 1868, son of \\'illiani Henr\- and Ellen Maria 
 (Cary) Haskell. He received his early education at 
 the Newtonville, Massachusetts, Grammar School, 
 and was graduated at Phillips Academy, Ando- 
 
 P. T. H.-VSKEI.L. 
 
 ver, Massachusetts, in 1SS8. After taking a short 
 course in the Sheffield School, at Yale, he attended 
 the Portland School of Medical Instruction and the 
 Medical School of Maine at Brunswick, Maine, 
 graduating in 1893. Later he took a course at the 
 New York Post Graduate School. He was Chair- 
 man of the Wakefield, New Hampshire, Board of 
 Health, and a member of the School Board. He 
 was a member of the Theta Delta Chi Fraternity 
 at Yale. Doctor Haskell married, October 28, 
 1896, Marietta A. Blake of \\'akefield, New Hamp- 
 shire. 
 
 HARRIMAN, Alpha Haven, Physician, Laco- 
 nia, was born in Albany, New Hampshire, October 
 
140 
 
 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 i-l-, 1S57, son of Nathaniel G. and Rhoda V>. 
 (Allard) Haniman. He is of English descent, 
 tracing his ancestry back to John and Leonard 
 Harrinian, who came to this country from Rowley 
 in 163S. He received his education in the com- 
 
 A. H. HARRIMAN. 
 
 mon school, in a private High School in Lovell, 
 Maine, and in the academies in Fryeburg and 
 Bridgton, Maine. His professional studies were 
 pursued at Bowdoin College Medical School, from 
 which he was graduated in 1883. He commenced 
 practice in Mercer, Maine, but after eight months 
 removed to Sandwich, New Hampshire, where he 
 remained for three years and a half. In November, 
 1887, he settled in Lacoiiia, and has remained there 
 up to the present time. He has attained a promi- 
 nent position in his profession, and has been most 
 successful in the management of difficult cases, 
 both surgical and medical, where skill and accurate 
 knowledge are requisite. He is an active member 
 of New Hampshire Medical Society and the Winni- 
 pesaukee Academy of Medicine. A contributor to 
 periodical medical literature and to " The Refer- 
 ence Hand-Book of Medical Sciences." He was a 
 member of the School lioard of Laconia for four 
 years, and for three years was President of the 
 Board. He is a dimitted member of Delta Lodge, 
 Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Lovell, Maine ; 
 of LTnion Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of which he 
 
 was High Priest in 1897-98; of Pythagorian Coun- 
 cil, Royal and Select Masters ; and of Pilgrim Com- 
 mandery, Knights Templar, Laconia. He was Emi- 
 nent Commander of the latter in 1896-98. Doctor 
 Harriman has always been a Democrat, though he 
 never took an active part in politics. He was mar- 
 ried February 10, 18S4, to Katherine E. Walker 
 of Lovell, Maine. They have two sons: Haven 
 Walker and Nathaniel Jov Harriman. 
 
 HEFFENGEI-l, Arthur Cowton, Physician, 
 Retired Navy Surgeon, Portsmouth, was born at 
 Cumberland, Maryland, December 12, 1852, .son of 
 J. Alexander and Catherine Lane Heffenger. He 
 
 A. C. HEFFENflER. 
 
 was prepared for college by private tutors, entered 
 the University of Virginia, and was graduated in 
 1874, and took a medical course in the University 
 of Maryland, in 1875. After leaving college, he 
 entered the navy as Assistant Surgeon, and was 
 promoted in March, 1878. After a term of service 
 of sixteen years, he retired. For over three years 
 of that time he was in South America, during the 
 Peru-Chili war, following the armies, and acquired 
 most of his wide experience as a Surgeon during 
 that time. He spent five years on special duty 
 under the Bureau of Medicine and Surger)', during 
 which time he designed and built the United States 
 Naval Quarantine Hospital, at Widow's Island, 
 
MEN OF PROCURESS. 
 
 141 
 
 Maine. He retired on account of ill health 
 acquired by exposure in a tropical climate, and 
 since this time has been in practice in the city of 
 Portsmouth. Doctor Heffenger has always been a 
 Republican, He is a member of the Board of 
 Water Commissioners, also of the Board of Instruc- 
 tion of the city of Portsmouth, and of the State 
 Board of Medical Examiners, besides numerous 
 societies. He was married in 1878 to Fann)' C, 
 daughter of Commodore Charles W. flickering, 
 llnited States Na\-y. They have six children : 
 Mary Stearns, Katharine, Constance, Priscilla 
 Stearns, Francesca, and Charles Pickering Hef- 
 fencfer. 
 
 HOBBS, Joseph ( )hvkr. Member of (Governor's 
 Council and I-ieal Estate Dealer, North Hamp- 
 ton, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, June 4, 
 1855, son of Joseph Stacey and Mary Dearborn 
 (Andrews) Hobbs. t)n the paternal side he is 
 descended from Morris Hobbs, who settled in 
 Hampton in 1637, coming to this countr\' from 
 England. One of Joseph's ancestors was John 
 
 J. O. HOBB.S. 
 
 Dearborn, at one time Commander-in-Chief of the 
 American Army ; and his great-uncle, John W. F. 
 Hobbs, was the originator of the Old Red Line 
 coaches that ran from Dock Scjuare to Canton 
 Street, Boston, for many 3ears. Mr. Hobbs 
 
 attended the Brinuner School in Boston, and the 
 Massachusetts Agricultural College. For five years 
 he was in the employ of Wadley, Spurr & Com- 
 pany, wholesale grocers, in Boston, leaving them to 
 go into the commission business with his father, 
 with whom he remained twelve years. This enter- 
 prise Mr. Hobbs gave up upon coming to New 
 Hampshire. His present business is farming, but 
 he devotes much time to real estate in Boston, Soni- 
 ei'ville. Rye Beach, and other places. He is part 
 owner of the Forest Hill Hotel, Franconia. He is 
 a Director of the Stovene Manufacturing Com- 
 pany, of the Granite State Fire Insurance Com- 
 pany, and the First National ];!ank; and a 'I'rustee 
 of the Piscataqua Savings Bank, and of the Hamp- 
 ton Academy, which was organized in 1808. He 
 is a member of Rockingham Lodge, No. 22, Inde- 
 pendent Order of Odd Fellows ; Hunto Encamp- 
 ment of Hampton, and Canton Senter, Patriarchs 
 Militant, of Portsmouth ; Derryiield Club of Man- 
 chester ; Wonolancet Club of Concord ; Portsmouth 
 Athletic Club and Warwick Club of Portsmouth ; 
 Piscataqua Boat Club of Kittery, Maine ; Rocking- 
 ham Congregational Club ; the Venus Mutual 
 Relief Association of North Hampton, and the 
 Grange. He now holds the position of Republi- 
 can Councillor for the First district, and is on the 
 State Prison Committee and on the Committee on 
 State House and (Srounds. He married December 
 19, 1893, Annie F. Hobbs. They have four chil- 
 dren: Joseph Harold, John William French, Lemira 
 Mae, and Leon Pickerin"' Hobbs. 
 
 HUNT, \\'ILLIAM Prescoti-, Manufacturer, Bo.s- 
 ton, was born in liath. New Hampshire, January 
 14, 1827, son of Caleb and Rebecca (Pool) Hunt. 
 He belongs to the Amesbury branch of the Hunt 
 family ; his grandfather Pool was a Surgeon in the 
 Revolutionary Army and married a sister of Doctor 
 John Hale of Hollis, New Hampshire, and sister of 
 the wife of Colonel Prescott who fought at Bunker 
 Hill. His father was a woolen manufacturer at 
 Bath and imported the first carding machine used 
 in that state, and his mother, a native of Hollis, 
 New Hampshire, was a cousin of W. H. Prescott, 
 the historian. Mr. Hunt attended the Academy at 
 Haverhill, New Hampshire, and was fitted for 
 Dartmouth, but receiving an offer from the South 
 Boston Iron Company, he entered the service of 
 that corporation in August, 1847. He was elected 
 Treasurer of the company in 1863, and President 
 and Treasurer in 1876, and has held the same 
 
I 4-^ 
 
 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 offices in the coiporations succeeding that com- tor OHver Wendell Hohiies was connected with the 
 pan)'. He has been President of the Eorbes Lith- school as tutor, and says : " I ha\e al\\'ays remem- 
 ographic Manufacturing Company from 1875 to the bared a remark he made to me one morning on my 
 present time ; President of the Boston Machine first attempt at dissection, \\y.., he didn't think I had 
 
 become cjuite a king of the scalpel," He was gradu- 
 ated with honors from the Medical Department of 
 Bowdoin College in 1S47. He began practice in 
 Kittery, Maine, in the same year, and remained 
 ^'' there seven years, then removed to Newton, Massa- 
 
 WILLIAM P, HUNT, 
 
 Company from 1S64 to 1S84; he has been a Direc- 
 tor in the ISoston I^ead Manufacturing Company' 
 since 1S80, and was a Director in the Canver 
 Cotton-gin Company from 1S60 to 1S88, He was 
 elected a Director of the Atlas National Bank 
 of Boston in 1872, President in 187S, serving 
 until 1882. He is a member of the Commercial 
 Club of Ijoston, Mr, Hunt married in 1856, Kath- 
 erine Muller of New York city, who died in 1S69, 
 September 28, 187 1, he married Helen S, Cum- 
 mings of New Bedford, He has five chilchen : 
 Mary E,, \\'illiani Prescott, Henry ^[., and John 
 Cummings Hunt, 
 
 KING, RuFUs HoRNE, Physician, \\'olfboro, was 
 born in Wakefield, New Hampshire, September 26, 
 182 1, adopted son of \^'illiam Home and Sally 
 Home of Wolfboro, New Hampshire. He attended 
 Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, taking 
 the classical course, and was graduated in 1844. 
 He then studied medicine with Doctor George B, 
 Garland of Lawrence, Massachusetts, and with 
 Doctor J. F Hall of Wolfboro, He attended the 
 old Tremont Medical School in Boston, when Doc- 
 
 chusetts, and later to Newark, New Jersey. In 
 1S60 he settled in Wolfboro, where he has remained 
 ever since. He is one of the leading physicians of 
 Carroll county, and is highly respected in the com- 
 munity. He held the office of Examining Surgeon 
 from 1 868 to 1884. He is a member of the State 
 Medical Society, and of the Carroll County Medi- 
 cal Society. He is a member of the First Unita- 
 rian Society of \\'olfboro. In politics Doctor King 
 is a Republican. 
 
 LANGDON, WoDDBURY, one of the most influ- 
 ential business men of New York, was born in 
 Portsmouth, New Hampshire, October 22, 1836, 
 son of W^oodbury and Frances (Cutter) Langdon. 
 He was fitted at the Portsmouth Grammar School, 
 but did not enter college. His commercial career 
 was begun in Boston, but in 1863 he removed to 
 New York to represent the house of Frothingham 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 143 
 
 & Company of the former cit)'. He was admitted 
 to partnership in 186S, and two years hUer the 
 firm was changed to Joy, Langdon & Company. It 
 is to-day one of the oldest and best known commis- 
 sion houses in the country. Mr. Langdon is a man 
 of many interests, lie is a Director of the Central 
 National liiank, National Bank of Commerce, Ger- 
 man American Fire Insurance Company, and New 
 York Life Insurance Company, also Director Title 
 Guarantee i\; Trust Company. He is a Vice-Presi- 
 dent of the New York Chamber of Commerce, and 
 since 1888 has been a member of the Executive 
 Committee. In 1890 he was made a member of 
 the Board of Rapid Transit Commissioners of the 
 City and County of New York. He was a Direc- 
 
 woorniURY lancidon. 
 
 tor of the New England Society, a member of the 
 Union League Club, and has been its Vice-Presi- 
 dent since 1889. In politics he is an ardent Re- 
 publican. He married in 1896, Elizabeth Elwyn, 
 daughter of Alfred Elwyn. 
 
 LINCOLN, Nathan Smith, Physician, V^'ash- 
 ington, District of Columbia, was born in Gardner, 
 Massachusetts, son of Reverend Increase Sumner 
 and Gracia Eliza (Smith) Lincoln. His ance.stors 
 on both sides were English, his father being a 
 descendant of the fanrous Lincolns of Hingham, 
 Massachusetts, who emigrated to this country in 
 
 1G35, 'incl to which President Lincoln also belonged. 
 On the maternal side he is descended from Rever- 
 end Peter Bulkley of Bulkley Manor, England. His 
 great-grandfather was General Jonathan Chase of 
 Re\'olutionary fame, and it is a curious coincidence 
 that while on the one side, General Chase drew up 
 the articles of surrender for Burgoyne's army at 
 Saratoga, General lienjamin Lincoln received the 
 sword of Cornwallis, when he surrendered to Wash- 
 ington at Yorktown. Doctor Lincoln's family is 
 distinguished, not only in war but in the ranks of 
 science and learning. His grandfather. Doctor 
 Nathan Smith, was the most celebrated surgeon of 
 his day, having founded the medical schools of 
 Yale and Dartmouth, and occupj'ing the Surgical 
 chair of Yale at the time of his death in 1829. He 
 was also Professor of Surgery at Bowdoin College 
 and at the University of Vermont. At the time of 
 Doctor Lincoln's birth and for many years after, his 
 father. Reverend Increase S. Lincoln, held the pas- 
 torate of the First Congregational church of Gard- 
 ner, Massachusetts. He was widely known as a 
 scholar and associated himself «ith the abolition 
 party at an early stage of its existence, being a 
 
 N. S. LINCOLN. 
 
 warm friend of Wendell Phillips and William Lloyd 
 Garrison. He died in 1890, at the age of ninety- 
 one, at that time being the oldest Unitarian minis- 
 ter in the LInited States, and having been actively 
 
144 
 
 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 engaged in the ministn- for sixt3--fi\-e years. Doc- 
 tor Lincoln was graduated from Dartmouth College 
 in 1850, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws 
 and Master of Arts, and since then that of Doctor 
 of Laws, from his Alma Mater. He attended med- 
 ical lectures at the University of Maryland, receiv- 
 ing his degree from that institution in 1852. Until 
 January, 1854, he practiced in lialtimore and since 
 that date, has resided in Washington, holding 
 many offices of distinction. In 1857 he was elected 
 Professor of Chemistry in the Columbian Univer- 
 sity ; in 1859, he was made Professor of Theory 
 and l-'ractice of INIedicine ; in i860, Professor of 
 Anatomy and Physiology, and in 1861, Professor of 
 Surgery, holding the latter chair until 1874, when 
 he resigned on account of the pressure of private 
 practice. In 1861, he was appointed by President 
 Lincoln, Surgeon to the District of Columbia Vol- 
 unteers. He was Surgeon-in-Chief of the hospitals 
 established in \^'ashington by the Quartermaster's 
 Department in 1861. In 1866 he was elected one 
 of the Surgeons of the Providence Hospital, resign- 
 ing in 1S75. -^°' ^ number of \ears he was Phy- 
 sician to the Deaf Mute College and to several 
 other institutions. He has made surgery a specialty, 
 and has performed successfully a large number of 
 important operations, including amputation at the 
 hip joint, lithotomy, removingtumorsfrom the region 
 of the head and neck, ligation of the large arteries, 
 etc. Doctor Lincoln is a member of the District of 
 Columbia Medical Association, being Vice-Presi- 
 dent in 1872 and President in 1875 ^'""^^ 1876; a 
 member of the American Medical Societ}', I-'resi- 
 dent of the Alumni Association of the University of 
 INLiryland and a member of the Philosophical Soci- 
 ety of \\'ashington. Doctor Lincoln married in 
 1877, Miss Jeanie T. Gould, daughter of the late 
 Judge George Gould of the Supreme Court Bench 
 of the State of New York, and Chief Justice of the 
 Court of Appeals. He has two children by this 
 marriaire : George Gould and Natalie Sumner Lin- 
 coin. 
 
 OS(;()()D, Adiusdn Newton, Lumberman, Sun- 
 cook, was born in AUenstown, New Hampshire, 
 March 16, 1836, son of Ira Ij. and Alice (Prescott) 
 Osgood. He traces his descent from Christopher 
 Osgood, of Ipswich, England, who died in 1650, 
 and belongs to the seventh generation of the family 
 in this country. The subject of this sketch received 
 his education in the common schools of his native 
 town and at Pembroke Academy. After leaving 
 
 school he spent three years in Boston. In i860, 
 he settled in Pembroke, where he engaged in lum- 
 bering, preparing his lumber for the market on the 
 site of the old mill once owned by his father. He 
 has been most successful in his business enter- 
 
 A. N. OSOOOli. 
 
 prises, and owns much valuable real estate in Pem- 
 broke and AUenstown. Mr. Osgood was a member 
 of the Legislature in 1878 and 1879, ''^''"^ '^^''"'S a 
 member of the Board of Selectmen of Pembroke 
 for a number of years. He is a Thirty-second 
 Degree Mason, an Odd Fellow, a Knight of Pyth- 
 ias, a Patron of Husbandry, and is affiliated with 
 the Grange of Pembroke. He is a member of the 
 Methodist Church. In politics he is a Republican. 
 Mr. Osgood was married, December 17, 1865, to 
 Mary E., daughter of William A. and Julia (Upham) 
 Phelps. 
 
 McQUESTEN, Eucene E., Physician and Sur- 
 geon, Nashua, was born in Litchfield, New Hamp- 
 shire, October 11, 1843, ^o" of Isaac and Margaret 
 Ann (Chase) McQuesten. His family, resident in 
 Litchheld since 1735, '-^ of Scotch-Irish origin, the 
 pioneer ancestor being William McQuesten, who 
 emigrated from the north of Ireland (Coleraine). 
 Doctor McQuesten received his education in the 
 public schools of Nashua, graduating from the 
 High School in i860. He then entered Blanchard 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 145 
 
 Academy, Pembroke, and after a two 3'ears' course 
 entered the Scientific Department of Dartmouth 
 College. Two years later he began the study of 
 medicine with Doctor Josiah G. Graves, of Nashua. 
 He attended one course of lectures at Dartmouth 
 College, and two courses at the Jefferson Medical 
 College, receiving the degree of M. D. from the 
 latter institution, March 10, 1866. In 1872 and in 
 1892 he took a full course of lectures at the medical 
 college from which he received his degree. After a 
 few months' practice in Lynn, Massachusetts, Doc- 
 tor McQuesten began the practice of medicine in 
 Nashua, January i, 1867. He is to-day the oldest 
 practicing physician in the city, although by no 
 means the oldest physician in point of years. He 
 has enjoyed many honors at the hands of the public 
 as well as at the hands of his fellow physicians, and 
 is to-day one of the most widely known and re- 
 spected physicians in the state. He was City Phy- 
 sician in 1871 ; Secretary of the P)Oard of Education 
 in 187 1 -'7 2; a Representative to the General Court 
 from Ward Two in i873-'74, and was Secretary of 
 the Board of Pension Examiners from 189310 1897. 
 Doctor ]\Ic(,)uesten's practice is general, and is. 
 
 E. F. McQUESTEN. 
 
 beyond dispute, the largest in the city. He is espe- 
 cially noted as a surgeon, and is frequently called 
 upon to perform difficult operations in all sections 
 of New Hampshire and Massachusetts. He is a 
 member of the American Medical Association, 
 
 American Association of Railway Surgeons, the 
 New Hampshire Medical Society, holding the office 
 of President in 1895; the Nashua Medical Society, 
 of which he was President in 1892, and of the New 
 York Medico-Legal Society. He is a Mason, a 
 member of the Blue Lodge, Chapter, Knights Tem- 
 plar, and Mystic Shrine. He has traveled exten- 
 sively, both in this country and abroad. He is not 
 only a good physician but is also a good citizen, 
 taking an earnest, active interest in every progres- 
 sive movement, \^■|lile in politics he has always 
 been a Democrat, until the Br)-an campaign, and, at 
 times, has taken an active part in public affairs, he 
 has ne\'er allowed his political interests to interfere 
 in the least with his professional work. Li 1868, he 
 married Lizzie M., daughter of Solomon Spalding, 
 of Nashua. She died in 1877. He married, in 1879, 
 Mary Abbie, daughter of Joseph A. Howard, of the 
 same place. She died in 1S85, and in May, 1887, 
 he married Anna E., daughter of ^^'illiam R. 
 Spalding, of Lawrence, Massachusetts. They have 
 three children : Philip, Josephine, and Eugene V. 
 McQuesten, Jr. 
 
 PHT.SBURY, Albert Enoch, Ex-Attorney- 
 General of Massachusetts, Boston, was born in 
 Milford, New Hampshire, August 19, 1849, son of 
 Josiah Webster and Elizabeth (Dinsmoor) Pills- 
 bury. On the paternal side he is of English 
 descent, through \\'illiam Pillsbury, who came from 
 Derbyshire and settled in Newbury (now Newbury- 
 port), Massachusetts, in 1641. His gieat-grand- 
 father, Parker Pillsbury. «as a soldier of the 
 Revolutionary \^'ar. His father was educated for 
 a professional career, being graduated from Dart- 
 mouth in 1840, but in view of his health was com- 
 pelled to adopt an out-door life, and became a 
 farmer. On the maternal side he is descended 
 from John Jjarnet and John Dinsmoor, original 
 Scotch settlers of Londonderry, New Hampshire. 
 Mr. Pillsbury attended the High School in his 
 native to\Mi, Appleton Academy, New Ipswich, 
 New Hampshire, and Lawrence Academy, Groton, 
 Massachusetts, where he graduated and entered 
 Har\-ard in 1867, but did not finish the course, 
 leaving college to teach school and to study law in 
 the West. He read law with James Dinsmoor, his 
 uncle, at Sterling, Illinois, and was admitted to the 
 Bar of that state. Returning to the East, he was 
 admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 187 i, settled 
 in Boston and began the practice of his profession 
 the same year. As a lawyer he has been highly 
 
146 
 
 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 successful. He is counsel for numerous large cor- 
 porations and for some years past has devoted 
 himself principally to this class of business, having 
 declined judicial and other public positions. He 
 has published a number of legal arguments and 
 adch'esses, and contributed to legal and other 
 
 ALI'.ERT E. PILLSRURY. 
 
 periodicals. Mr. Pillsbury was a member of the 
 Massachusetts Legislature in 1876, 1877, and 1878. 
 From the beginning he took his place among the 
 leaders. He was elected to the Senate of 1884, 
 and was twice re-elected. In 1885, he was unani- 
 mously chosen President of the Senate, an honor 
 again conferred upon him a yeai' later. From 1891 
 to 1893 inclusive he «'as Attorney-General of the 
 Commonwealth. He was prominently mentioned 
 for the Republican nomination for (Governor in 
 1892, and was the leading candidate for the nomi- 
 nation against Go\ernor Greenhalge in 1893. Mr. 
 Pillsbury was President of the Mercantile I^ibrary 
 Association in 1879; he has been the President 
 and a Director of the United States Trust Com- 
 pany since its organization, and a Trustee of the 
 Franklin Savings Pank for about ten years. Since 
 1896 he has been Lecturer on Constitutional Law 
 in the Law School of Boston llniversity, and he 
 was recently appointed a Commissioner to revise 
 the charter of the City of P>oston. He is a member 
 of the Algonquin, xArt, and LTniversity Clubs ; of 
 the Massachusetts, Middlesex, and other political 
 
 clubs ; \'ice-President of the Massachusetts Society 
 for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ; a member 
 of the American Academy of Political and Social 
 Science ; and various other scientific, charitable, 
 and literary societies. Mr. I-'illsbury delivered the 
 annual oration before the Boston City Government 
 on the Fourth of July, 1890. The honorary degree 
 of A. M. was conferred upon him by Harvard Col- 
 lege in 1 89 1. 
 
 PEARSON, EiiwARD N.'VTH.VN, Manager of the 
 Rumforcl Printing Company, Concord, was born in 
 Webster, September 7, 1859, son of John C. and 
 
 E. N. PEARSON. 
 
 Lizzie S. (Colby) Pearson. He was prepared for 
 college at the Warner High School and at Pen- 
 acook Academy, entered Dartmouth, and was grad- 
 uated in the class of 188 1. He then taught for a 
 year in the public schools of Washington, District 
 of Columbia. He was Associate Editor of the 
 Concord Evening Monitor and Independent States- 
 men from 1882 to 1S90; Managing Editor of the 
 same from 7890 to 1S9S, and ISusiness Manager 
 of the Republican Press Association from 1892 to 
 1898. January i, 1898, he resigned the two posi- 
 tions last named to become Manager of the Rum- 
 ford Printing Company, a corporation organized by 
 him to assume by purchase the general printino- 
 business of the Republican Press Association. He 
 was elected Public Printer by the Legislature in 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 147 
 
 1893, and re-elected in 1895. Mr. Pearson was 
 married, December 6, 1882, to Addie M. Sargent, 
 of Lebanon. They have four children : Edward 
 N., Jr., Robert H., John W., and Mildred Pearson. 
 
 PEiVRSON, John Couch, Penacook, President 
 of the Rumford Printing Company of Concord, 
 was born in J5oscawen, New Hampshire, May 
 26, 1835, son of Nathan and Eliza (Couch) Pear- 
 son. He was educated in the common schools, at 
 KimlDall Union Academy, Meriden, and at the 
 Merrimaclv Normal Institute, Reed's Ferry, New 
 Hampshire. He followed the vocation of farmer 
 and wool grower in \^■ebster until iSyijWhenhe 
 engaged in mercantile pursuits, continuing the lat- 
 ter for a short time in Penacook, to which place he 
 removed in 1876, and where he has since resided. 
 
 J. C. PEARSON. 
 
 Mr. Pearson was a member of the Legislature in 
 1S71, 1872, and 1887, and was State Senator in 
 1889. He has also served as County Commis- 
 sioner, has filled various town offices, and is a 
 Director in banking and other corporations. He 
 married Lizzie S. Colby of Nashua. They have 
 three sons: Edward N., of Concord, John W., of 
 Boston, and Harlan C. Pearson of Concord, gradu- 
 ates of Dartmouth College in 1881, 1883, and 1893 
 respectively. 
 
 PEARSON, John Harris, Concord, was born in 
 Sutton, New Hampshire, March 17, 1818, son of 
 Thomas and Abigail (Ambrose) Pearson. His 
 mother was the daughter of Elder Ambrose, for 
 many years liaptist minister at Sutton. Her great- 
 grandfather was a relative of Lord Nelson, and 
 came from England and settled in Newburyport, 
 Massachusetts. He was also a liaptist minister. 
 Mr. Pearspn's earlier educational advantages were 
 limited. Later he attended the school at Henni- 
 ker and Hopkinton Academy. He has been in 
 business since he was twenty-one years of age. He 
 built the Penacook Flour Mills and was in the flour 
 and grain business in Depot Square for twenty-five 
 years. He was also engaged for a time in the man- 
 ufacture of flour in Akron, < )hio, and at Ogdens- 
 burgh. New York. Mr. I^earson stands in the 
 first rank of New Hampshire business men. He 
 was the iirst man in Concord to bring flour and 
 grain in large quantities from the \^'est. He is 
 known as " the great New Hampshire I^ailroad 
 fighter.' He has won his way in the world by 
 hard and persevering work. J<'or years he was a 
 
 J. H. PEARSON. 
 
 Director in the Concord & Montreal Railroad, and 
 is now next to the largest stockholder in the road. 
 He is an Episcopalian and a Mason. Mr. Pearson 
 has been a Democrat all his life. In 1839 ^^^ '^'^^^ 
 married to Mary Ann, daughter of Samuel Butter- 
 
148 
 
 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 field; she died in 1S79. Thev had one son : Charles 
 Pearson, who was graduated from Dartmouth Col- 
 lege, and died in 1883. Having lost his first wife, 
 Mr. Pearson in 1S89 was married to Jessie Ridgele)', 
 daughter of the late Colonel Jesse A. Gove, United 
 States Armv, who was killed in the Civil War. 
 
 PERKINS, ALBER-r Alonzo, Bank President 
 and Treasurer, Somersworth, was born in (Jssi- 
 pee. New Hampshire, March 6, 1S26, son of Levi 
 and Maria (Desmazes) 1-^erkins; and died March 
 16, 1898. His father was a native of Wells, Maine, 
 and a descendant of one of the early English set- 
 tlers of that region. His mother was born in New- 
 bur3-port, Massachusetts, her father having come 
 to America from France near the close of the last 
 century. The subject of this sketch attended the 
 district schools and for several terms the academies 
 of Effingham and Wakefield. At the age of twenty- 
 one, he bought a country store in his native village 
 and conducted it for five years. In November, 
 1852, he was chosen Treasurer of the Great Falls 
 & Conway Railroad. He was an officer of the 
 road in Somersworth and was chosen Superinten- 
 
 A. A. PERKINS. 
 
 dent in 1853, when the road was in a feeble condi- 
 
 tion. 
 
 Mr. Perkins devoted his energies to build- 
 
 ing up the line, extending it from Milton to North 
 Conway, and from Somersworth to Conway Junc- 
 tion. In 1873 his health being somewhat impaired, 
 
 he resigned the position and for several years 
 spent the winters in Florida and the summers in 
 the North. In 1876, he was elected Treasurer of 
 the Somersworth Savings Bank. He was also 
 elected President of the Great Falls National Bank. 
 He was a member of the School Committee, and 
 was Alderman for three terms. In 1859 '^'^'^ i860, 
 he was a member of the General Court. In 1845, 
 Mr, Perkins was married to Abby Crosby Bean of 
 Gilmanton, New Hampshire, who died in 1891. 
 He was again married in November, 1892, to Mrs. 
 Harriet Bates LeGro, widow of Captain Edgar B. 
 LeGro of Somersworth. 
 
 PORTER, Royal Hervev, Banker, Keene, was 
 born in Wendell, Franklin county, Massachusetts, 
 August 21, 1827, son of Noah and Nabby (Comins) 
 Porter. He is of English stock, being a descend- 
 ant in the seventh generation from John Porter, 
 who was born in Dorset, England, in 1596, and 
 came to this country, settling in Hingham, Massa- 
 chusetts, in 1635. He was educated in the com- 
 mon schools and at New Salem Academy, Williston 
 Seminary, and at Northfield, New Hampshire. He 
 worked on his father's farm in the summers until he 
 was twenty-one, attending school in the winters up 
 to the time he was sixteen, when he commenced 
 teaching, and taught terms in New Salem and 
 Hardwick, Massachusetts, and at Keene, West- 
 moreland, Marlborough, and Dublin, New Hamp- 
 shire. At the age of twenty-one he became a 
 teacher in a public school at Laurel, Maryland, and 
 remained there a year, boarding with the father of 
 Senator Gorman, who was his pupil. He then 
 accepted a position as Principal in a private school 
 in Georgetown, District of Columbia, and held it 
 for two years, when he was appointed Discount 
 Clerk in the Farmers & Mechanics' Bank of that 
 city, a position he held for about three years. Mr. 
 Porter, during his residence in the District of 
 Columbia, frequently visited the Capitol, where he 
 heard many of the famous orators and statesmen 
 of the day: Sumner, Webster, Clay, Calhoun, Ben- 
 ton, Cass, Cobb, Hale, Mann and others, and wit- 
 nessed many dramatic scenes of those stormy 
 times, among them the vote in the House of Rep- 
 resentatives on the repeal of the Missouri Compro- 
 mise. He was elected Cashier of the Cheshire 
 Bank of Keene, and entered upon his duties Octo- 
 ber I, 1855. He held the position until January i, 
 1898, when he was elected Vice-President, and his 
 son, Waher R., who had been associated with him in 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 149 
 
 the bank for eighteen j-ears, was chosen Cashier to ROBINSON, John Loimkard, for man)' 3'ears a 
 
 succeed him. In Januar)', iiS64, the bank became a leading Pliysician and Surgeon of JManchester, and 
 national institution, and increased its capital from who died in that city June 13, 1896, was born in 
 one hundred thousand dollars to two hundred thou- Pembroke, New Hampshire, January 2, 1835, son 
 sand dollars. His term of oflice — over forty-two years of Samuel and Petsy (Webster) Robinson. He 
 
 comes of old Puritanic stock, being descended 
 from John Robinson, the lirst preacher of Ply- 
 mouth. His mother, born lietsy Webster, was sec- 
 ond cousin of Daniel Webster, the famous states- 
 man. John L. Robinson attended the common 
 schools and academy of Pembroke, and then went 
 to Wilbraham Academy in Massachusetts. He 
 took two courses at Dartjuouth, and was graduated 
 from Harvard Medical School in 1859. He began 
 his practice in Wenham, Massachusetts, March, 
 1859. Doctor Robinson became deeply interested 
 in that place, and for twenty years made it his 
 home. When the war broke out he became Assist- 
 ant Surgeon of the Eighth Regiment of Massachu- 
 setts Volunteers (nine months men) and served with 
 that regiment and was mu.stered in, 1862. He was 
 stationed in Newberne, North Carolina, with the 
 regiment, participating with it in the various cam- 
 
 R. H. PORTER. 
 
 — was probably longer than is to the credit of any 
 other Cashier in the state. During all this time the 
 bank enjoyed prosperity, never failing to pay a 
 semi-annual di\idend besides accumulating a large 
 surplus fund. Mr. Porter was County Treasurer 
 for three years ; Town and City Treasurer for fifteen 
 years, which office he holds at the present time ; 
 State Senator two years, i875-'76, being Chairman 
 of the Banking and Judiciary Committees; Trustee 
 of the State Normal School, and President of the 
 Board during the same years. He is a Mason, a 
 member of Lodge of the Temple, Cheshire Royal 
 Arch Chapter and Hugh de Payens Commandery. 
 In politics he has always been a Republican, but 
 believes that municipal government should be con- 
 ducted upon business principles, irrespective of pob 
 itics. Mr. Porter was married May 27, 1852, to 
 Maria M. Thompson. They had three children : 
 Ada M., Alice G., and Walter R. Porter. On Jan- 
 uary 12, 1869, he was married to Emilie M. 
 Wheaton, and one daughter, Emilie W. Porter, was 
 born to them. On September 4, 1873, ^^ married 
 Ellen E. Dickinson. 
 
 JOHN L. R01!INS0N. 
 
 paigns and expeditions in the Department of North 
 Carolina, and at Fortress Monroe, Baltimore, Mary- 
 land Heights, on the route to join the Army of the 
 Potomac. He was mustered out August 7, 1863. 
 In July, 1864, he was appointed Surgeon of the 
 
'5° 
 
 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 Eighth Massachusetts Militia, and was on dut)' with 
 the regiment near Baltimore. He was mustered 
 out of the United States Service, November lo, 
 1864, but continued his services with the Massa- 
 chusetts Volunteers, until his resignation, January 
 13, 1865. Upon his removal to Manchester, Doctor 
 Robinson quickly took a leading position among 
 tire men of his profession. He was an active 
 member of the Elliott Hospital Staff for four years, 
 when he resigned this post, being elected consult- 
 ing member, and so continued until his death. He 
 was a member of the Harvard Medical Alumni 
 Association, and at the time of his death was one 
 of its Vice-Presidents. He was a member of 
 the Eighth Massachusetts Veterans' Association ; of 
 Louis Bell Post, Grand Army of the Republic of 
 Manchester ; of the Manchester Art Association ; 
 a Fellow with the Massachusetts Medical Society 
 for thirty-seven years ; a Fellow with the New 
 Hampshire Medical Society ; a Mason, and a 
 member of the Chapter of Washington Lodge of 
 Manchester. He was received as companion with 
 the first class militia order of Loyal Legions of the 
 United States, April 3, 1889. In politics. Doctor 
 Robinson was a Republican, although he was far 
 from a partisan. He was a member of the Frank- 
 lin Street Congregational Church of Manchester. 
 He married Phttbe Ann Hadley of Wenham, Mas- 
 sachusetts. They had two children : John Frank- 
 lin and Annie Maria Robinson. 
 
 RUNDLETT, Louis John, Superintendent of 
 the public schools of Concord, was born in Bed- 
 ford, New Hampshire, March 14, 1858, son of 
 William Ayers and Louisa (McPherson) Rundlett. 
 His grandfather, Thomas liundlett, was among the 
 early settlers of Manchester and was of English 
 stock, by trade a hatter. He died at the age of 
 74. On the maternal side, his grandfather, Stephen 
 McPherson, of Scotch descent, was one of the early 
 settlers of Bedford and a farmer. He died at the 
 age of ninety-six. Mr. Rundlett attended the pub- 
 lic schools of Manchester and Bedford, entered 
 Dartmouth College, took a classical course and 
 was graduated in the class of 1881. He taught 
 in Boscawen in the winter of i88r-'82 ; in Fisher- 
 ville, now Penacook, in i882-'85, when he was 
 appointed Superintendent of Schools of Concord, 
 a position he now holds. He has the degree of 
 A. M. Mr. Rundlett won his education by his own 
 pluck and determination. The lirst seventeen 
 years of his life he spent on a farm in Bedford. 
 
 He worked his own wa)' through the city schools 
 of Manchester, and through college. During his 
 stay in Hanover he was prominent in athletics, and 
 was for three years pitcher of the college nine. At 
 the close of his course he had offers to pitch on 
 
 L. J. RUNDLETT. 
 
 the Worcester and Detroit League teams, but 
 declined them. He has been highly successful as 
 an instructor and has received a number of offers 
 to leave Concord, but has been retained in that 
 city by frequent increase in salary. He is profi- 
 cient on the violin, an able elocutionist and a suc- 
 cessful painter in oils. He is a member of the 
 Wonolancet Club of Concord ; the Horace Chase 
 Lodge of l^enacook ; Trinity Royal Arch Chapter ; 
 the Horace Chase Council, as well as Mount 
 Horeb Commandery, Knights Templar. In poli- 
 tics Mr. Rundlett is a Democrat. He was married 
 September 6, 1892, to Carrie Belle Copley of New 
 Britain, Connecticut. They have one child : Cop- 
 ley McPherson Rundlett. 
 
 SHAPLEY, J. Hamilton, Lawyer, Exeter, was 
 born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, March 25, 
 1810, son of James and Sarah (Champney) Shap- 
 ley. His father was President of the Bank at 
 Portsmouth, also a prominent shipmaster; he de- 
 scended from Alexander Shapley who came to this 
 country in 1635, ■'^"d h's mother was a grand- 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 151 
 
 daughter of Joseph Champney, a minister of 
 Beverly, Massachusetts. He is descended from 
 good old New England stock. The Champneys 
 came to this country in company with the first 
 minister of Cambridge. Mr. Shapley received his 
 education in the common schools of Portsmouth 
 and at the academy in that place. He studied law 
 with Ichabod liartlett, who defied Henry Clay in 
 Congress, and was admitted to the Bar in 1S40. 
 Since 1837 he has been connected with the courts, 
 and is at present the oldest member of the Bar in 
 the county. He was Register of Probate for five 
 years, Justice of the Peace, Recorder of Deeds and 
 was the leading counsel in the Betty Earmer case. 
 
 J. HAMILTON SHAPLEY. 
 
 At the age of nineteen he took a trip to the Medi- 
 terranean, and also to New Orleans. Mr. Shapley 
 has always been a Republican and his first pi:blic 
 vote was cast for John Quincy Adams. He also 
 voted for William Heni-y Harrison. Mr. Shapley 
 was President of the branch of the ITnited States 
 Bank at Portsmouth, also a prominent owner of 
 shipping and merchants. 
 
 SMITH, Robert Baxter, Mechanical Engineer, 
 Hooksett, was born in Tunbridge, Vermont, No- 
 vember II, 1871, son of Charles B. and Martha A. 
 (Saunders) Smith. On the paternal side he is of 
 English stock, being descended from Colonel Wil- 
 liam Smith, who fought in the French and Indian 
 wars, and among whose descendants are numbered 
 
 soldiers in the Revolution, the War of 1812, the 
 War with Mexico, and 1861. On the maternal 
 side he has among his ancestors William Bradford, 
 and Joseph Saunders, the Scotch dissenter. He 
 attended the public schools of Tunbridge, and the 
 Chelsea (Vermont) Academy, and afterwards re- 
 ceived private instruction, while carrying on gen- 
 eral contracting work. He was graduated from 
 Tufts College, in the classical course, with the 
 degree of A. B. in 1895, and during his course de- 
 voted much attention to general engineering and 
 chemical research as well as the regular work of 
 the class. He also took a special course in me- 
 chanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute 
 of Technology. Previous to his technical studies 
 he became thoroughly acquainted with all depart- 
 ments of woolen and cotton mills. In i894-'95 he 
 was Laboratory Instructor in Physics at Tufts, and 
 in i895-'96 was Instructor in Physical Sciences at 
 the Sumerville High School. He also engaged 
 during his college course in architectural work with 
 a contracting firm. From 1895 he has carried on 
 the work of a general consultins; engineer. He 
 
 ROBERT B. SMITH. 
 
 now holds the positions of Agent of the Hooksett 
 Mills, Agent of the Crefeld Company, and Mana- 
 ger and Chief Engineer of the Merrimack Electric 
 Company and installed the first long distance high 
 voltage transmission of electric power in this coun- 
 
15^ 
 
 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 tr)-. Now engaged also in the construction of a 
 reduction plant at Hooksett for the electrical sepa- 
 ration of lead and zinc from the natural ores of New 
 England. Mr. Smith is a member of Washington 
 Lodge of Masons in Vermont, St. Paul's Chapter, 
 Boston, Massachusetts; Sons of Veterans, Ameri- 
 can Society of Mechanical Engineers, Boston Ath- 
 letic Association, and Tufts Chapter of Delta Upsi- 
 lon Fraternity. 
 
 SPAULDING, Oliver Lyman, Assistant Sec- 
 retary of the Treasury, Washington, was l)orn in 
 Jaffrey, New Hampshire, August 2, 1833, son of 
 Lyman and Susan (Marshall) Spaulding. In the 
 paternal line he is of English descent. The fam- 
 ily removed to the West in Mr. Spaulding's youth 
 and settled in Medina, Michigan. Mr. Spaulding, 
 who had prepared for college while working on a 
 farm in New Hampshire, attended Oberlin College, 
 graduating in 1855. For three years he was en- 
 gaged as teacher in different high schools in Ohio 
 and Michigan, but at the same time he carried on 
 
 O. L. SPAULDING. 
 
 the study of law and was admitted to the Bar in 
 1858, beginning his practice at St. Johns, Michi- 
 gan, where he has since resided. Mr. Spaulding 
 had become well established in his profession, and 
 was beginning to reap the success which his years 
 of labor had gained for him, when the War of the 
 
 Rebellion opened. Moved b}' an impulse of patri- 
 otism and a sense of dut)', he responded to the call 
 for volunteers and offered his services to the coun- 
 try. In July, 1862, he recruited a company which 
 became Company A of the Twenty-third Regiment, 
 Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and of which he be- 
 came Captain. The regiment was mustered in, in 
 September, 1862, and was mustered out June 28, 
 1865, at Salisbury, North Carolina. In the inter- 
 vening period it saw its full share of hard service, 
 with plenty of fighting and marching, this service 
 extending over a wide range of territor)', and in- 
 cluding some of the severest engagements of the 
 war. He was with the regiment during the entire 
 time, and received successive promotions to the 
 rank of Major, Lieutenant-Colonel, Colonel, and 
 Brevet Brigadier-General. He was at the siege of 
 Knoxville, Resaca, Georgia, Lost Mountain, Kene- 
 saw Mountain, Atlanta, Franklin, Nashville, and 
 Fort Anderson, and he took part in the closing 
 battles of the war in North Carolina. In his army 
 service he won the reputation of a brave soldier 
 and discreet commander, gaining his brevet title of 
 Brigadier-General for gallant conduct and meritori- 
 ous service in the field. At the close of the war he 
 returned to his home and his practice in St. Johns. 
 As a lawyer he has been highly successful and has 
 been proved particularly able before a jury, his 
 method being direct, forceful and practical. Esti- 
 mated by his prominence in the law and the extent 
 of his public services General Spaulding is among 
 the first citizens of Michigan. He was elected a 
 Regent of the University of Michigan in 1858. He 
 was elected Secretary of the State of Michigan in 
 1S66, and was re-elected in 186S. In 187 1 he was 
 tendered and declined an appointment as United 
 States District Judge of the Territory of Utah. In 
 1875 he was appointed Special Agent of the United 
 States Treasury Department, a position he held 
 until March, 1881, when he resigned it to take a 
 seat in Congress, to which he had been elected in 
 1 880. Through a change in the boundaries of the 
 district and a fusion of opposing parties, he was 
 defeated for re-election, though he ran nearly a 
 thousand ahead of his ticket and lost the election 
 by but thirty-two votes. He declined a nomina- 
 tion in 1884. In 1883, General Spaulding was 
 Chairman of the Government Commission sent to 
 the Sandwich Islands to investigate alleged viola- 
 tions of the Hawaiian Reciprocity Treaty. In 
 June, 1885, he was again appointed Special Agent 
 of the Treasury, but resigned in the following 
 
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 153 
 
 December. Again in 1889, he accepted the position 
 of Special Agent, which he- held until his appoint- 
 ment as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in 
 July, 1890. On the coming in of the Democratic 
 administration in 1893 he resigned his office and 
 returned to the practice of his profession in Michi- 
 gan. For several years he was a member of the 
 Republican State Committee of Michigan, and in 
 1896 was a Delegate to the Republican National 
 Convention. President McKinley reappointed him 
 Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in i«97. 
 General Spaulding is prominent in Masonry. He 
 has been Grand Master of the Grand Lodge ; 
 Grand High Priest of the Grand Chapter, Royal 
 Arch Masons ; Grand Master of the Grand Coun- 
 cil of Royal and Select Masters ; and Grand Com- 
 mander of the Grand Commandery, Knights Tem- 
 plar of Michigan. He is a communicant of St. 
 John's Episcopal church and has been Senior 
 Warden for the past twenty-five years. General 
 Spaulding married, May 29, 1856, Jennie Mead, of 
 Hillsdale, Michigan, who died November 9, 1857. 
 April 12, 1859, he married Martha Minerva Mead, 
 a sister of his first wife. She died November 20, 
 1861. August 12, 1863, he married Mary Cecilia 
 Swegles, daughter of Hon. John Swegles, formerly 
 Auditor General of Michig-an. 
 
 his good will in the long-established business to 
 his nephews, Gilman S., and Frederick E. Stanton, 
 sons of lAicius Stanton, who continue the manu- 
 facture of silk goods under the firm name of Stan- 
 ton Brothers. Mr. Stanton is a member of the 
 
 STANTON, Lucius Manliu.s, Manufacturer, 
 New York, was born in Wakefield, New Hamp- 
 shire, August 28, 1839, son of Jacob Clark and 
 Nancy (Cook) Stanton. He comes of good old 
 New England stock. The Stanton family were 
 residents of Rochester, New Hampshire, many 
 years before 1800. On the maternal side his 
 grandfather was Colonel Benjamin Cooke, of 
 Wakefield. Mr. Stanton was educated at Bev- 
 erly and Salem, Massachusetts, and attended the 
 public schools from 1843 to 1855. His early boy- 
 hood was passed on a farm. His first business 
 experience was in i855-'56, as a clerk in a store 
 and post-office at Winchester, Massachusetts. For 
 about five years he was a salesman in a dry-goods 
 house in Boston, but in 1861 he went to New 
 York, as salesman in the silk department of A. T. 
 Stewart &: Company. From 1861 to 1869 he was 
 connected with the wholesale dry-goods trade, as 
 salesman, traveler, and buyer, after which he was 
 associated with his younger brother, T. Gilman 
 Stanton, in the firm of Stanton Brothers, which 
 firm did a successful business for a quarter of a 
 century, when T. Gilman Stanton retired, giving 
 
 UUCICS l\r. STANTON. 
 
 New England Society of New York ; of the Colo- 
 nial Club ; of the LInitarian Club ; of the West 
 End Association, and the Republican Club. In 
 politics he is a Republican. He married, Novem- 
 ber 28, 1870, Mary Augusta Shattuck, daughter of 
 Isaac Shattuck of Arlington, Massachusetts. He 
 has two sons : Gilman Shattuck, born in 1872, and 
 Frederick F^'erett Stanton, born in 1873. 
 
 STEARNS, Onslow, twice Governor of New 
 Hampshire, and one of the best known railroad 
 men in New England, was born in Billerica, Massa- 
 chusetts, August 30, 1810, and died in Concord, 
 New Hampshire, December 29, 1878. He was the 
 son of John Stearns, a prosperous farmer of Billerica, 
 and a grandson of Isaac Stearns, a well-known and 
 influential citizen of Middlesex county, Massachu- 
 setts, who held various local and state offices, and 
 was for several years a member of the Executive 
 Council. Onslow Stearns remained at home, at- 
 tending school and academy and working on his 
 father's farm until he was seventeen years of age. 
 In 1827 he went to ]3oston and was employed as 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 clerk in the drj'-goods jobbing house of -Howe & 
 Holbrook, a firm afterwards better known as J. C. 
 Howe & Company. In 1S30 he went to Virginia, 
 and was emplo3'ed by his brother, John O. Stearns, 
 in the engineering department of the construction 
 
 
 ONSLOW STEARNS. 
 
 of the Chesapeake & Ohio canal. In 1833 he be- 
 came associated with his brother in contracts for 
 the construction of various railroads, among which 
 were the Philadelphia & Columbia, the German- 
 town, the Philadelphia & Trenton, the Philadelphia 
 & Norristown, the Delaware &: Atlantic, the Cam- 
 den & Amboy, the IJrooklyn & Jamaica, the Phila- 
 delphia, Wilmington & Baltimore, the Elizabeth- 
 town & Somerville, and the Baltimore cSc Ohio rail- 
 roads. In 1837, after his connection with these 
 enterprises had terminated, he became contractor 
 in the construction of the Charlestown Branch Rail- 
 road in Massachusetts and of the Wilmington & 
 Haverhill Railroad. The former of these became 
 a part of the Fitchburg Railroad, and the latter a 
 part of the Boston & Maine. He also completed 
 the construction of the Nashua & Lowell Railroad, 
 of which road, on its completion in 1838, he be- 
 came Superintendent. In 1S45 he resigned his 
 position as Superintendent and was appointed 
 Agent of the Northern Railroad of New Hamp- 
 shire for the purpose of building its road from Con- 
 cord to West Lebanon. In May, 1852, he was 
 
 chosen President of the Northern Railroad, and 
 held the position until his death, twenty-seven 
 years later. Mr. Stearns was also General Super- 
 intendent of the Vermont Central Railroad from 
 1852 to 1855, a short time a Director in the 
 Ogdensburgh Railroad, and from 1857 to 1875 a 
 Director in the Nashua & Lowell Railroad. He 
 was also for a time President of the Sullivan Rail- 
 road, the Contoocook Valley, and the Concord & 
 Claremont railroads. In the management of the 
 various railroads with which he was connected, 
 Mr. Stearns won a reputation for enterprise and 
 shrewdness which few New England men acquired, 
 and his services were sought beyond the geographi- 
 cal limits to which his operations had been con- 
 fined. In July, 1866, he was chosen President of 
 the Old Colony & Newport Railroad, as the Old 
 Colony Road was at that time called, and during 
 his administration the Cape Cod Railroad and the 
 New Bedford & Taunton Railroad were consoli- 
 dated with the Old Colony & Newport, under the 
 name of the Old Colony Railroad. The South 
 Shore and the Duxbury & Cohasset railroads were 
 also added to the System, and the Old Colony 
 Steamboat Company was formed and purchased 
 the boats of the Narragansett Steamship Company. 
 Of the Steamboat Company he was also made 
 President. In 1874 Mr. Stearns was chosen Presi- 
 dent of the Concord Railroad, and held that posi- 
 tion until his death. In November, 1877, he re- 
 signed the office of President of the Old Colony 
 Railroad, finding that its duties superadded to 
 those in other directions were making serious in- 
 roads on his health. To the performance of all 
 these duties he brought perhaps a more thorough 
 equipment than was possessed by any man in New 
 England, and one surpassed in completeness by 
 few men in the country. Beginning his career at 
 the foundation of railroad construction, there was 
 no department in railroad management with the 
 details of which he was not familiar. Few men 
 have had imposed on them more arduous labors. 
 To the performance of these he devoted not only 
 his days, but many hours of the night, and to the 
 pressure of their burden may be attributed his 
 comparatively early death. Nor did railroad inter- 
 ests absorb the whole of his time. In 1862 he was 
 chosen a Republican member of the New Hamp- 
 shire Senate, and in 1863, having been re-chosen, 
 was President of that body. In 1864 he was a 
 Delegate-at-large from New Hampshire to the Re- 
 publican National Convention at Baltimore, and on 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 iSS 
 
 the 7th of January, 1869, was nominated for Gov- 
 ernor. He was inaugurated June 3 in that year. 
 He was re-chosen the next year in opposition to his 
 wishes and served for a second term. During his 
 administration, which was characterized by a wise 
 conservatism and an economical management of 
 the finances of the state, the state debt was re- 
 duced nearly one third and the state tax more than 
 one half. As chief magistrate he gave close atten- 
 tion to details, and no interest failed to receive his 
 patient and careful study. Mr. Stearns was mar- 
 ried June 27, 1845, to Mary A., daughter of the 
 Hon. Adin Holbrook of Lowell, Massachusetts. 
 She died July 27, 1S95. One son and four daugh- 
 ters survive him. In 1846 he made Concord his 
 permanent home. 
 
 STEARNS, Ezra S., Secretary of State of 
 New Hampshire, was born in Rindge, New Hamp- 
 shire, September i, 1838, son of Samuel and Mary 
 (Moore) Stearns. He received his education in 
 the public schools, by means of private tutors, and 
 in Chester, New Jersey. He taught school for a 
 
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 EZRA S. STEARNS. 
 
 time in the latter place. For several years he was 
 connected with publishing houses in Boston, New 
 York, and Philadelphia, and subsequently was 
 Manager and Editor of a newspaper in Fitchburg, 
 Massachusetts. In 1875 he published a history of 
 Rindge, and in 1887 one of Ashburnham, Massa- 
 
 chusetts, both works of great value in point of 
 historical accuracy and literary skill. He was 
 Moderator of Rindge for more than twenty years, 
 State Senator in i8S7-'89, and a member of the 
 Legislature in i864-'6s-'66-'67, and 1870. While 
 he was holding a seat in the House in 1 891, he 
 was elected Secretary of State. Among the duties 
 of his first year in this office was the inauguration 
 of the Australian ballot system in New Hampshire, 
 and in this, as in other duties of the position, Mr. 
 Stearns acquitted himself with high credit. In 
 1887 Dartmouth College conferred upon him the 
 degree of A. M. He is a member and Vice-Presi- 
 dent of the New England Historic-Genealogical 
 Society, member of the American Antiquarian 
 Society, of the New Hampshire and other histori- 
 cal societies, and from time to time he has con- 
 tributed many articles upon the early history of his 
 native state. 
 
 SWART, Wir.LiAM Drommond, Manufacturer, 
 Nashua, was born in Margaretville, New York, 
 July 9, 1856, son of William R. and Eliza (Drum- 
 mond) Swart. His ancestors on both sides came 
 from Holland and were among the first European 
 settlers of New York state, locating at and near 
 Kingston on the Hudson river. His great-grand- 
 father, son of Samuel Swart, lost his entire pos- 
 sessions at the time the British burned the city of 
 Kingston, during the Revolutionary War, and his 
 grandfather, Samuel Swart, served throughout the 
 War of 1812 with honor and distinction. On the 
 maternal side he traces his ancestry back nine 
 generations to Walerandt Du Mont, who married 
 in Kingston, January 13, 1664, Margaret Hendrick, 
 and who was at that time serving on the staff of the 
 Noble Lord Director, General Stuyvesant, in the 
 Netherlandish service, stationed at Kingston, New 
 York. William Drummond Swart was educated in 
 the public schools of Margaretville and at the 
 Wesleyan Academy at Wilbraham, Massachusetts, 
 finishing at the age of eighteen. After leaving 
 school, he was in the employ of Evans, Peak & 
 Company, of New York city, wholesale dry goods 
 merchants, for five years; and with Bates, Reed & 
 Cooley in the same business, two years. In 1881, 
 he engaged in the decorative art business which he 
 carried on successfully in Newark, New Jersey, for 
 seven years. After spending two years in travel in 
 this country, he located in Nashua, New Hamp- 
 shire, in February, 1890, going into the retail lum- 
 ber business with Charles A. Roby, under the firm 
 
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 MEN OF PROfiRESS. 
 
 name of Roby & Swart. Two years later the firm SWEET, Robert Vauchan, Physician and Ex- 
 
 purchased the edge tool works in the same city and Mayor of Rochester, was born in Port Byron, New 
 added a wood working plant. In 1894 the retail York, April 25, 1865, son of Vaughan and Jndah 
 business was consolidated with F. D. Cook & Com- (Ferris) Sweet. His father was of Huguenot and 
 pany, Roby & Swart retaining the manufacturing his mother of Scotch descent. He received his 
 
 early education in the Academ}' in his native town, 
 entered Cornell University, and was graduated in 
 June, 1885. He was principal of the Rose Union 
 School in Rose, New York, during the following 
 school year, and then studied medicine in the New 
 York Medical College, being graduated in 1888. 
 Beginning the practice of his profession imme- 
 diately in Rochester, he has remained there ever 
 since. In December, 1S94, he was elected Mayor, 
 
 W. D. SWARl'. 
 
 and wholesale business under the name of Roby & 
 Swart Manufacturing Company, Mr. Swart is a 
 Director in the former company and Director and 
 Treasurer in the latter. He is also a Director in 
 the Nashua Machine Company, in the Nashua 
 Trust Company, and Director and Treasurer of the 
 Nashua Building Company. In 1S93 to 1895 he was 
 President of the Board of Trade. He was a mem- 
 ber of the Common Council from 1893 to 1895, 
 being President for two years, and has been Fire 
 Connnissioner from 1895 to the present time. He 
 was appointed Colonel on Governor Ramsdell's 
 staff in 1897. He is a Thirty-second Degree 
 Mason and a member of Rising Sun Lodge, Free 
 and Accepted Masons, Aaron P. Hughes Council, 
 St. George Chapter, and Commandery of the E. A. 
 Raymond Consistory and of the Aaron P. Hughes 
 Lodge of Perfection, Ancient and Accepted Scot- 
 tish Rites, He is a Director of the Con^reFa- 
 
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 tional Church Society. In politics, Mr. Swart has 
 always been a Republican. He married, October 
 7, 1890, Lizzie A., daughter of Luther A. Roby of 
 Nashua. They have two children : Elizabeth and 
 William Roby Swart. 
 
 ROBERT V. SWEET. 
 
 though the city has a large Republican majority. 
 Refusing a renominalion, on account of ill health, he 
 left home at the expiration of his term of office and 
 spent a year in travel, both in this country and 
 abroad. Dr. Sweet is a Knights Templar and Com- 
 mander of Palestine Commandery. In politics he 
 is an independent Democrat. He married June 
 28, 1892, Josephine, daughter of E. G. Wallace, of 
 the firm of E. G. & E. Wallace. They have three 
 children : Pauline, Carlyle Wallace, and Robert 
 Vaughan Sweet, Jr. 
 
 WALLACE, Ai.oNzo Stewart, Physician, 
 Nashua, was born in Bristol, Maine, February 17, 
 1847, son of David and Margaret Wallace. He is 
 
MEN OF PRCXIRESS. 
 
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 of Irish and English descent. His grandfather, 
 David Wallace, was one of the pioneers of New 
 Hampshire. He was educated in the district and 
 high schools of his native place. From the high 
 school he entered Lincoln Academy at New Castle, 
 Maine, walking a distance of ten miles every Mon- 
 day morning, taking food for the week with him, 
 and returning Friday nights. The best he could 
 do was to attend two terms a year, and in order to 
 accomplish this and also to assist his parents, he at 
 first went to sea as a sailor during the summers, 
 until by courage and capacity he rose to the posi- 
 tion of First Mate of a barque. As his book knowl- 
 edge increased, he filled other positions of honor 
 and trust, and by teaching between terms he at last 
 graduated with honors. Although at his graduation 
 he was able to pass the examination to enter Bow- 
 doin, he entered the Maine Conference Seminary at 
 Bucksport and fitted to teach higher grades of 
 studies. During this time he was Superintendent 
 of Schools in his native town. From 1869 to 1872, 
 he taught in Maine and Massachusetts, being at 
 one time Principal of the High School at Rockport, 
 
 A. S. WALLACE. 
 
 Maine. He held office at the I^eformatory School 
 in Boston at two different times, the second time as 
 Principal, being very? successful with this work and 
 gaining the confidence of the boys. While holding 
 this position, he made the acquaintance of Doctor 
 
 8. H. Durgin, and through his influence began the 
 study of medicine and surgery. He pursued the 
 study of anatomy and physiology while still a 
 teacher, and after thorough preparation under the 
 instruction of Professors Brackett of Bowdoin, 
 and Green of Portland, he entered the medical 
 department of Bowdoin. Later he was a student 
 at Portland, and finally entered the medical depart- 
 ment of Dartmouth, where he was graduated in 
 1874. His first practice was at the Massachusetts 
 State Lunatic Hospital at Northampton, where he 
 remained for six months, resigning to accept the 
 position of Assistant Physician of the Port of Bos- 
 ton. He was promoted to Port Physician, which 
 position he filled with great honor and credit, resign- 
 ing in 1879. From this time until 1888, he practiced 
 very successfully in Brookline, New Hampshire. 
 He then removed to Rochester, New Hampshire. 
 After remaining there one year, he settled in 
 Nashua in 1S89, where he has gained a very large 
 practice. He is a member of the Massachusetts 
 Medical Society and the New Hampshire Medical 
 Society. Doctor Wallace is a Congregationalist. 
 He is an Odd Fellow and a Ivnight of Pythias, 
 belonging to the United Order of the Golden 
 Cross and the Pilgrim Fathers, and has recently 
 become a Thirt)'-second degree Mason. He mar- 
 ried Mary F,, only daughter of Charles and Har- 
 riet Maynard of Lowell. They have four children : 
 Arthur Lowell, born October 12, 1877 ; Edith May- 
 nard, born March 24, 1879 ; Edna June, born June 
 8, 1880, and fna Wallace, born February 21, 1890. 
 
 VVESTGATE, Tvf.er, Judge of Probate, Haver- 
 hill, was born in Enfield, New Hampshire, Decem- 
 ber 2, 1843, son of Nathaniel W. and Louise 
 (Tyler) Westgate. His father was Judge of Pro- 
 bate for (jrafton county. His great-grandfather, 
 John Westgate, came from Rhode Island to Plain- 
 field, New Hampshire, about 1778, married Grace 
 Church, lineal descendant of Captain Benjamin 
 Church, who was distinguished in King Phillip's 
 War. They had eleven children, of whom Earl 
 Westgate, grandfather of Tyler, was one. Nathan- 
 iel W. Westgate was educated at Kimball Acad- 
 emy, read law with Charles Flanders of Plainfield, 
 was admitted to the Bar at Newport, New Hamp- 
 shire, in 1827, settled at Enfield, where he practiced 
 successfully for thirty years. He was appointed 
 Register of Probate in 1856, at which time he 
 moved to Haverhill. Later he succeeded Nathaniel 
 S. Berry as Judge of Probate when the latter became 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 Governor in iS6i. Judge Westgate retired from J. Bean of Limington, Maine, who died January 28, 
 
 office in 1S71 at the age of seventy. He also held 1894. He has two daughters: Louise Bean, and 
 
 many offices in Enfield and Haverhill, and was Elsie May Westgate. 
 elected to the Legislature after his retirement from 
 
 office. He married Louise Tyler, a grand-daughter 
 
 WOODBURY, Levi, Hotel Proprietor, Wash- 
 ington, District of Columbia, was born in Salem, 
 New Hampshire, October 17, 1834, son of Israel 
 and Eliza (Graham) Woodbury. He comes of an 
 ancestry of honorable distinction in the state of 
 New Hampshire, his grandfather, Israel, having 
 enlisted in the Revolutionary Army at seventeen 
 years of age, having a military^ career of seven 
 years, and subsequently serving the state in civil 
 capacity in its Legislature for thirty-one consecu- 
 tive years. He lived to be ninety-nine years and 
 ten months old, with all his senses unimpaired. 
 Mr. Woodbury's early life was passed upon his 
 father's farm, and his education was obtained in 
 the public schools of his native town. In i860 he 
 entered the employ of the Manchester & Law- 
 rence Railroad, as station agent at Windham, New 
 Hampshire, remaining there eight years. During 
 this time he also engaged in the lumber business, 
 at which he was very successful. In 1869, having 
 
 'J'VLER WESTCATE. 
 
 of Colonel Benjamin T)ler of Wallingford, Con- 
 necticut. The subject of this sketch received his 
 education at the Haverhill and Kimball Union 
 (Meriden, New Hampshire) Academies, and was 
 graduated from the latter in 1S64. He was Assist- 
 ant Clerk of the Supreme Court of Grafton county 
 from April 11, 1865, to April i, 1S7 i, and was Reg- 
 isterof Probate of the county from August 7, 1871, 
 to July, 1874, and again from August, 1876, to 
 June, 1879. In i*~76-'77 he was Clerk of the New 
 Hampshire Senate. He was Postmaster at Haver- 
 hill from 188 1 to 18S5, and was again made Regis- 
 ter of Probate in July, 1889, holding the office 
 until 1890, when he was made Judge of Probate, 
 which he still holds. He is one of the most popu- 
 lar men ever elected to the office. He has always 
 been most active in all movements for the improve- 
 ment of the town or county. In politics he is an ''^^^ woodbury. 
 ardent Republican, and is influential in shaping the disposed of his New Hampshire business, he went 
 party's course in the county. Judge Westgate to Washington, District of Columbia, and engaged 
 married August 30, 1881, Lucretia M. Sawyer of in the hotel business, since which his fame as a 
 Malone, New York, who died January 16, 1884, successful hotel man has extended to all parts of 
 leaving no issue. He was again married to I'hc.ebe the country. Mr. Woodbury is also identified with 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 1 59 
 
 many interests for the benefit of the cit)'. He is 
 President of the new line of steamboats to Old 
 Point Comfort and Norfolk, and is a Director of 
 the Central National Bank, and largely interested 
 in Washington real estate. He is a man of affairs 
 who conducts whatever he undertakes with ability, 
 and to a successful issue. That he has not lost 
 interest in early associations, and in his native 
 state, is evidenced by the fact that he has pur- 
 chased the old homestead at Salem, New Hamp- 
 shire, and makes this one of his outing places 
 during the summer. He is a Mason and a Knights 
 Templar, a member of Blue Lodge, No. 4, of Derry. 
 In politics he is a Democrat. He married Mary J., 
 daughter of David and Sarah Wheeler of Atkinson, 
 New Hampshire, 
 
 AI^BOTT, Alfred Wells, Physician, Laconia, 
 was born in Concord, New Hampshiie, May 7, 
 1842, son of Alfred C. and Judith (Farnham) 
 Abbott. He studied medicine with S. S. Emery, 
 M. D., at Fisherville, and graduated with honor 
 at Dartmouth Medical College in 1S6S. He com- 
 menced the practice of his profession at Law- 
 rence, Kansas, and practiced in that state for a 
 short time, vv'hen he returned to New Hampshire, 
 locating at Suncook, where he remained until July, 
 1870, when he removed to Sanbornton, New 
 Hampshire, where he practiced until 1880. Dur- 
 ing his ten years of active practice in that and 
 adjoining towns, he gained a host of friends and 
 acquired a lucrative practice. Runnells's " History 
 of Sanbornton," published while he was residing in 
 that town, says of him : " He has won much esteem 
 for his social qualities, and as a well-read, scientific 
 physician enjoying an extensive practice in this 
 and neighboring towns." In 1880 he came to 
 Laconia. Here, preceded by his reputation for 
 his skill and knowledge, he made rapid strides in 
 his profession, and to-day he occupies an assured 
 position among the leading practitioners of this 
 section of New Hampshire. His practice is large 
 and lucrative, he has acquired a competency, and 
 is considered one of Laconia's best financiers. He 
 has long been a Director of the Belknap Savings 
 Bank ; he was the first Vice-President of the Win- 
 nipiseogee Academy of Medicine, and its second 
 President, which position he now holds. He has 
 been President of the Citizens' Telephone Com- 
 pany, of Laconia, since its organization in July, 
 1896. Besides acquiring an extensive and lucra- 
 tive practice, he has won a wide reputation as an 
 
 able physician. In his political affiliations Doctor 
 Abbott is a staunch Republican, but has never 
 sought political preferments, having steadfastly 
 refused official positions, though often importuned 
 by his political friends to accept positions of honor 
 and trust. He is distinctively a professional man, 
 and devotes his whole time to the calling which 
 he loves so well. He was married December 30, 
 1869, to Julia Ann Clay of Manchester, New 
 Hampshire, by whom he has had three children : 
 Clifton Smith, born January 16, 1871, a graduate 
 of the Dartmouth Medical College in the class of 
 1S93. Voung Doctor Abbott is in partnership 
 with his father, and has gained an enviable reputa- 
 
 A. W. ABBOTT. 
 
 tion as a learned and skilful physician. Like his 
 father, his whole time is given to his profession. 
 Fie was born and bred, as it were, to the profession 
 in which he is now engaged. Blanche Newall was 
 born April 10, 1872, and is a young lady of many 
 accomplishments, and a teacher in our public 
 schools ; Carl Benning Abbott was born August 
 29, 1877, and died, March, 1S88. 
 
 ALBIN, John Henrv, Lawyer, Concord, was 
 born in West Randolph, Vermont, October 17, 
 1843, son of John and Emily (White) Albin. He 
 prepared for college in the High School of Con- 
 cord; entered Dartmouth, and was graduated in 
 
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 MEN 0¥ PROGRESS. 
 
 the class of 1S64. In October, 1S67, he was 
 admitted to the Bar, and in April, 1S68, became a 
 partner of Judge Eastman and Samuel B. Page. 
 The firm was a very strong one, and did a very 
 extensive business. It was dissolved, by mutual 
 consent, in 1874. Mr. Albin next formed a part- 
 nership with Mason W. Tappan, who became 
 Attornej'-General of New Hampshire, a position 
 which he held with great honor and ability until 
 
 J. H. ALBIN. 
 
 his death. Afterward, Mr. Albin and Nathaniel E. 
 Martin were in business together. In 1875, Mr. 
 Albin became a resident of Henniker, representing 
 that town in the Legislature of 1876, serving on 
 important committees and being one of the leading 
 and most influential members. He subsequently 
 returned to Concord, as a place of residence, and 
 was a Representative from ^^'ard 5 in that city to 
 the Legislature in 1872 and 1873, being an acknowl- 
 edged leader upon the floor of the House. He is 
 the President of the Sullivan County Railroad, and 
 also of the Concord Street Railway, in which latter 
 corporation he is the principal owner. He is a 
 Director in the Connecticut River Railroad, also in 
 the Vermont Valley Railroad. He is an Odd Fel- 
 low of high rank and wide celebrity, having held 
 all the official positions in the Grand Lodge, being 
 Grand Master in 1879 ^""^^ iSSi and again in 1882. 
 He represented the state in the Sovereign Grand 
 
 Lodge at its sessions in Cincinnati and Baltimore. 
 In politics he is a prominent Republican, closely 
 identified with the organization and management 
 of the party. As a legal adviser and advocate, 
 Mr. Albin is one of the foremost in the state, and 
 in the conduct of important causes in court, fre- 
 quently involving large corporate interests, he has 
 been especially successful, and as a defender in 
 several noted criminal trials he won distinction. 
 His indomitable industry and tireless zeal have 
 made him almost invaluable in local affairs, and in 
 the shaping of legislation and the conduct of muni- 
 cipal government, his work has been comprehen- 
 sive in detail and important in results. His exten- 
 sive experience, and clean-cut, quiet, and effective 
 way of accomplishing desired ends have made him 
 a conspicuous, honored and respected member of 
 the community in which he makes his home. He 
 was married, September 5, 1872, to Miss Georgia 
 A. Modica, an accomplished lady of prepossessing 
 personality and marked social attainments. They 
 have two children, a son and daughter, Henry A. 
 and Edith G. Albin. 
 
 BAKER, Henrv M(_)0RE, Lawyer and Ex-Con- 
 gressman, Bow, was born in that town, January 11, 
 1841, son of Aaron Whittemore and Nancy (Dustin) 
 Baker. He comes of patriotic and heroic ancestry. 
 His great-great-grandfather, Captain Joseph Baker, 
 a colonial surveyor, married Hannah, only daugh- 
 ter of Captain John Lovewell, the famous Indian 
 fighter who was killed in the battle of Pigwacket, 
 May 8, 1725. A few years later the township of 
 Suncook or Lovewell's Town was granted by Mas- 
 sachusetts to the survivors and the heirs of those 
 killed in that battle. This township included 
 much of what is now Pembroke, but as its boun- 
 daries conflicted with those of the town of Bow, 
 chartered May 10, 1727, by Governor Wentworth 
 of New Hampshire, the grantees never received the 
 full benefits intended for them. The contention 
 resulting from these different grants was terminated 
 December 13, 1804, when that part of Bow east of 
 the Merrimack river was annexed to Pembroke and 
 Concord. Captain Baker's son, Joseph, married a 
 descendant of the Scotch Covenanters and set- 
 tled in Bow. The acres he cleared and cultivated 
 are now a part of the family homestead. He was 
 a soldier in the Revolution and a man of energy 
 and influence. His son, James, married a grand- 
 daughter of Reverend Aaron Whittemore, the first 
 clergyman in Pembroke. Their eldest son, Aaron 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
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 Whittemoie Baker, married Nancy Dustio. He 
 was only twelve years old when his father died 
 from injuries accidentally received, but notwith- 
 standing his tender years, the boy resolutely met the 
 responsibilities he could not escape, and through 
 his endeavors and his mother's aid, the younger 
 children were well educated and the farm was 
 successfully cultivated. He was of sterling integ- 
 rity, of advanced thought, a bitter opponent of slav- 
 ery, and an ardent advocate of temperance and in 
 everything earnest of purpose. His wife was of 
 high character, sweet disposition, great talent, and 
 generally beloved. She was a descendant of the 
 colonial heroine, Hannah Dustin. Walter Bryant, 
 a relative on the maternal side of the subject of 
 this sketch, was prominent in colonial affairs, and 
 surveyed many of the townships and the eastern 
 boundary of the state. Henry M. Baker was the 
 youngest son of Aaron ^^'hittemore Raker. He at- 
 tended the common schools of his native town, the 
 academies of Pembroke and Hopkinton, the New 
 Hampshire Conference Seminary at Tilton, and 
 was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1863. 
 He received the degree of Master of Arts three 
 years later. Upon his graduation he began the 
 study of law under the direction of Judge Minot of 
 Concord. He was appointed Clerk in the War 
 Department of Washington, District of Columbia, 
 in 1864, and was transferred to the Treasury De- 
 partment, where he remained in different positions 
 of trust and responsibility for several years. Mean- 
 while he had continued his law studies, having en- 
 tered the Law Department of the Columbian Uni- 
 versity, where he was graduated in 1866, and was 
 admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of the 
 District of Columbia. In 1882 he was admitted to 
 practice in the Supreme Court of the United States. 
 He practiced law for several years at Washington, 
 where he soon obtained a large clientage and was 
 engaged in many important cases. The sons of 
 the Granite State are noted for their love of home 
 and for attachment to the hills, valleys, lakes and 
 rivers which make that state so picturesque and 
 beautiful. Wherever they roam or however long 
 absent, they turn with loving devotion to the old 
 homesteads and greet with equal joy old friends 
 and accustomed scenes. Mr. Baker, though neces- 
 sarily absent much of the time for several years, has 
 never ceased to be a resident of his native town, 
 and no year has passed without his return to the 
 old home to mingle with his neighbors and friends 
 and enjoy its pure air and beautiful scenery. He 
 
 has always been an aggressive Republican, and an 
 active campaigner. No son of New Hampshire is 
 more zealous of her good name and high standing 
 than Mr. Baker. He has been earnest in the advo- 
 cacy of state aid to her institutions of learning and 
 of charity, to her public libraries and the preserva- 
 tion of historical records and objects of patriotic 
 interest. In i886-'87, Mr. Baker was Judge Advo- 
 cate General of our National Guard with the rank 
 of Brigadier-General. He was nominated in the 
 Merrimack District by acclamation as candidate of 
 his party for the Slate Senate in 1890, and ran 
 largely ahead of his ticket. While in his district 
 the Republican candidate for Governor had a plu- 
 rality of only seventy-six votes he received a plural- 
 ity of one hundred and fifty and a majority of 
 seventy-five votes. By his energetic and success- 
 ful canvass he contributed greatly to the general 
 success of his party, and its control of the Legisla- 
 ture that year was largely due to him. In the Sen- 
 
 H. M. BAKER. 
 
 ate he was Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, 
 and a member of several other important commit- 
 tees as well as Chairman of its joint special com- 
 mittee on the revision, codification and amendment 
 of the Public Statutes. He took an active part in 
 all proceedings of the Senate, and became recog- 
 nized as a Republican leader. He was elected 
 Representative in Congress from the Second Dis- 
 trict by a good plurality in 1892, reversing the 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 Democratic victory in the preceding election. In 
 iSg4 he was re-elected by a plurality more than 
 fourteen times greater than that of 1892, but was not 
 again a candidate for re-election. In the Fifty- 
 third Congress he was assigned to the Committees 
 on Agriculture and Militia. In the next Congress 
 he was a member of the Committees on Judiciary 
 and Election of President, Vice-President and Rep- 
 resentatives in Congress. He was Chairman of 
 one of the Standing Sub-Committees of the Judi- 
 ciary Committee. His principal speeches in Con- 
 gress were in opposition to the repeal of the Fed- 
 eral Election Laws, on the Methods of Accounting 
 in the Treasury Department, in favor of the pur- 
 chase and distribution to the farmers of the coun- 
 try of rare and valuable agricultural and horticul- 
 tural seeds, on the Tariff, on Protection not Hos- 
 tile to Exportation, oh the Necessity of Adequate 
 Coast Defence, on the Criminal Jurisdiction of the 
 United States Supreme Court, and on Civil Service 
 Reform. He is still an active campaigner and is 
 heard frequently upon the stump. He is a mem- 
 ber of the New Hampshire Club, a Mason, a 
 Knights Templar, and a Noble of the Mystic 
 Shrine. He is a member of the New Hampshire 
 Historical Society, to which he had made valuable 
 contributions, and has established prizes in Dart- 
 mouth College. In religion he is a Unitarian. 
 Since his retirement from Congress, Mr. Baker has 
 been engaged in the advocacy of public reforms 
 and improvements, and superintending his varied 
 private investments. In these he finds sufficient 
 and congenial occupation. Mr. Baker is unmar- 
 ried. John B. Baker of Bow, a member of the 
 Legislature of 1897, is his only surviving brother. 
 
 BAKER, Eleazer, Grocer, Suncook, was born in 
 Brewster, Massachusetts, November 2, 1S38, son 
 of Joshua G. and Margaret (Small) Baker. He is 
 of English descent, tracing his ancestry back to the 
 fourteenth century. He attended the public schools 
 of his native town until he was twelve years of age, 
 when he left home and started out to make his own 
 way in the world. He went to sea and followed 
 this career until the breaking out of the Civil M^ar. 
 In April, 1861, in response to President Lincoln's 
 call for volunteers, he enlisted for a year. He was 
 assigned to duty as a petty officer on the gunboat 
 Massachusetts. Receiving an honorable discharge 
 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard at the expiration of his 
 term of enlistment, he was engaged on the steamer 
 Young America, in transporting troops and provi- 
 
 sions from Fortress Monroe up thePamunkeg river 
 to Whitehouse Landing. In May, 1868, Mr. Baker 
 went to Suncook, in the town of Pembroke, and 
 established a grocery and meat business, and by 
 industry and perseverance has built up a large and 
 
 E. BAKER. 
 
 lucrative trade. He is one of Pembroke's most 
 influential and public-spirited citizens, and every 
 good work has his hearty and substantial support. 
 Though he never sought public office, he was elected 
 to the Legislature in i885-'86. He is a Trustee of 
 the Methodist E|)iscopal Church. In politics he is 
 a strong and most active Republican. Mr. Baker 
 was married November 16, 1862, to Hannah Jane 
 Nickerson of South Dennis, Massachusetts. Six 
 children have been born to them : Eleazer Frank- 
 lin, born September 8, 1863 ; Josiah Frederick, 
 born December 31, 1866; Alice Cleal, born Janu- 
 ary 20, 1870, who died January, 1873 ; Nellie Jane, 
 born December 20, 1875 ; and Edith May and Eva 
 Louise Baker (twins), born September 8, i88o. 
 
 BARTLETT, George Ansel, Disbursing Clerk 
 of the United States Treasury Department, Wash- 
 ington, District of Columbia, was born in Kings- 
 ton, New Hampshire, April 23, 1841, son of 
 Richard and Sally (Fellows) Bartlett. His ancestry 
 on the paternal side dates back to William the 
 Conqueror, and on the maternal side his ancestors 
 were prominent in New Hampshire affairs; his 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
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 uncle, Moses Fellows, being the first Mayor of 
 Manchester, New Hampshire. His grandmother 
 Bartlett's father, Aaron Young, was an officer in the 
 Revolutionar)' War. He was educated in the com- 
 mon schools and in I-Cingston Acadeni)'. When he 
 was sixteen years of age, Mr. Bartlett left home to 
 go to Lawrence, Massachusetts, as an apprentice 
 of E. W. Colcord, who had gone there from Kings- 
 ton, and engaged in the manufacture of leather 
 belting. At the breaking out of the war he enlisted 
 for three years in Company " K," of the Fourteenth 
 Massachusetts fnfantry, on May 20, 1861. He 
 participated in all the battles of the Regiment, 
 being recommended for promotion for bravery on 
 two occasions, but declined promotion, preferring, 
 as he expressed it, ■' to stay with the boys.'' In 
 1866, he removed to Washington where he entered 
 the Paymaster General's office. Two years later 
 he resigned, but in 1871 again entered the govern- 
 ment service as a clerk in the Treasury Depart- 
 ment. He was soon appointed to an eighteen 
 hundred dollar clerkship, and in 1881 was ap- 
 pointed by Secretary \^'indom to the responsible 
 
 GEO. A. BARTLETT. 
 
 position of Disbursing Clerk in the United States 
 Treasury Department, which position he still holds. 
 Mr. Bartlett is one of the best known New Hamp- 
 shire people in Washington, paying out some six 
 million dollars yearly. He is always actively in- 
 terested in all gatherings of New Hampshire people 
 
 in Washington. He is a member of various veteran 
 organizations, and was President of the Union 
 Soldiers' Alliance in 1889. He is a Thirty-second 
 degree Mason and a member of the Mystic Shrine, 
 and has always been very prominent in Masonry. 
 He is a member of the Lafayette Lodge, No. 19, 
 Mt. Vernon Chapter, No. 3, Royal y\rch Masons, 
 Washington Commandery, No. i. Knights Templar, 
 and Almas Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles 
 of the Mystic Shrine. He takes a great interest in 
 the District of Columbia Militia, organized the 
 Treasury Guards, and holds the rank of Major of 
 the department battalion. 
 
 BATCHELDER, Alfred Trask, Ex-Mayor of 
 Keene and successful Lawyer and man of affairs, 
 was born in Sunapee, New Hampshire, February 
 26, 1844, son of Nathaniel and Sarah (Trask) 
 Batchelder. On the paternal side he is descended 
 in the eighth generation from John Batchelder, 
 who came to this country from England and 
 settled in Beverl)', Massachusetts. His great- 
 grandfather in this line was commander of a ship 
 in the '50's of the last century in the days when 
 Beverly was a flourishing seaport, and made many 
 successful voyages. His son Zachariah, the grand- 
 father of the subject of this sketch, settled in 
 Sunapee, where he engaged in business, and where 
 his son Nathaniel became one of the best known 
 farmers of the town and one of its most influen- 
 tial residents. Though not a man of more than 
 moderate means Nathaniel Batchelder gave his 
 children a liberal education. His son attended the 
 district schools of Sunapee and New London 
 Academy, and entering Dartmouth College was 
 graduated in 187 1. He studied law in Claremont 
 with Judge W. H. H. Allen and Ira Colby, being 
 associated in practice with the latter after bis 
 admission to the liiar in September, 1873. Upon 
 his removal to Keene in 1877, Mr. Batchelder 
 became a partner of Francis A. Faulkner and his 
 son, Francis C. Faulkner, the firm name being 
 Faulkner & Batchelder. Francis A. Faulkner 
 died May 22, 1879, since which time Mr. Batchel- 
 der and his son have continued the business, 
 which has been highly successful. In spite of his 
 professional duties Mr. Batchelder has found time 
 to engage in many important enterprises. Among 
 the positions of trust he has held are President of 
 the Cheshire Provident Institution for Savings ; of 
 the Impervious Packing Company ; of the C. B. 
 Lancaster Shoe Company, and of the Stoddard 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 Lumber Company, selling" out his interest in the 
 last named in 1897 ; and Director in the Emerson 
 Paper Company of Sunapee, in the Ashuelot and 
 Keene National Banks. He succeeded Judge Allen 
 as Register of Bankruptcy under the National Bank- 
 
 A. T. EATCHELDER. 
 
 rupt law; and from 1879 'i" ''^^ consolidation of 
 the Cheshire Railroad with the Fitchburg system 
 he was its general attorney. In politics Mr. 
 Batchelder is a Republican ; and he has been 
 active in the support of the party, serving as 
 Mayor of Keene in i8S5-'86. He was a member 
 of the New Hampshire Legislature in 1897, and 
 Chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the 
 House. In religion he is an Episcopalian. He is 
 prominent in Masonry, and is a member of the 
 Hugh de Payens Commandery, Knights Templar. 
 Mr. Batchelder married, April 24, 1879, Alice H., 
 daughter of Peter B. and Mary H. Hayward of 
 Keene. He has two sons. 
 
 BENEDICT, Frank Liee, Physician, Portsmouth, 
 was born in New Marlboro, Massachusetts, Septem- 
 ber 13, 1855, son of Benjamin and Ursula (Niver) 
 Benedict. In the paternal line Doctor Benedict 
 traces his descent from French stock, the family in 
 America being descended from Thomas Benedict, 
 who came over from England in 1700. and settled in 
 Huntington, Long Island. Among Thomas Bene- 
 dict's descendants were the founders of Danbury, 
 
 Connecticut. Frank Lee Benedict is in the eighth 
 generation from Thomas. On the maternal side he 
 is descended from ancestors who came from Holland 
 and settled in Columbia county, New York. For 
 two or three generations back on both father's and 
 mother's side, the family were engaged in farming. 
 Doctor Benedict attended the common schools in 
 Massachusetts ; the Great Barrington High School, 
 1870-72 ; Claverick (New York) College, Hudson 
 River Institute, i872-'75 ; the New York Homceo- 
 pathic Medical College, New York city, iS76-'79, 
 being graduated in April of the last year. Early 
 in May of 1879 he settled in Portsmouth, and 
 began the practice of his profession, and has since 
 been as busy and successful as a medical man 
 generally is. He was Pension Examiner from 
 1S93 to 1897, but has never sought political offices 
 or taken a very active part in politics. He is a 
 member of St. Andrew's Lodge, Free and Accepted 
 Masons, DeWitt Clinton Commandery, and Os- 
 good Lodge of Odd Fellows, all of Portsmouth. 
 He is a member of Warwick Club, of which he was 
 President in 1S95 ; the Piscataqua Yacht Club, and 
 
 F. L. BENEDICT. 
 
 the New Hampshire Homceopathic Medical Society. 
 Doctor Benedict was married, December 20, 1888, 
 to Katheryne Hinckley Hamlin, the ceremony tak- 
 ing place in the Church of the Transfiguration, by 
 Rev. Doctor Houghton, New York city. 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
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 BINGHAM, Edward Franklin, Chief Justice 
 of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, 
 born at West Concord, Vermont, August 13, 1828, 
 son of Warner and Lucy (Wheeler) Bingham, is a 
 descendant of Thomas Bingham, who emigrated 
 from Sheffield, England, and settled in Norwich, 
 Connecticut, in 1659. He is a brother of the 
 Hon. Harry Bingham, an eminent lawyer and Dem- 
 ocratic leader, and the late Judge George A. Bing- 
 ham, a prominent lawyer and Ex-Judge of the 
 Supreme Court of New Hampshire. Edward F. 
 Bingham received his early education at the public 
 and select schools of Vermont, and later at the 
 Academy of Peacham, Vermont, one of the oldest 
 and best endowed institutions of that state at that 
 time. In 1S46 he determined to make Ohio his 
 future home, and after spending a brief period at 
 Marietta College, read law with his brother, Harry, 
 at Littleton, concluding his law studies under the 
 late Judge Joseph Miller, at Chillicothe, Ohio. He 
 was admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of 
 that state in May, 1850, the late Chief Justice 
 Hitchcock presiding. On June i, 1S50, he opened 
 a law office at McArthur, the county-seat of the 
 newly created county of Vinton. Although a total 
 stranger he soon found warm friends and built up 
 a large practice. The following November he was 
 appointed Prosecuting Attorney of Vinton county, 
 and in 1851 he was elected for a term of two years, 
 and re-elected in 1853, serving five years. He was 
 a member of the Legislature in 1856 and 1857. 
 Although strongly urged to accept a re-nomination 
 to the Legislature, he declined, desiring to devote 
 himself to his law practice. In 1858 he was given 
 the unanimous nomination by the Democratic party 
 for the office of Judge of the Court of Common 
 Pleas for the second sub-division of the Judicial 
 District composed of the counties of Vinton, Jack- 
 son, Scioto, Pike, and Lawrence. His party then 
 being the minority in that sub-division, he was 
 defeated by a small margin. In 1859 he again 
 declined a nomination as candidate for the Legis- 
 lature. He was a Delegate from the Eleventh 
 Congressional District of Ohio, in i860, to the 
 Democratic National Convention, held first at 
 Charleston, South Carolina, and by adjournment 
 at Baltimore. In January, 1861, he removed to 
 Columbus, Ohio, where he resided until his re- 
 moval to Washington, District of Columbia. In 
 1868 Judge Bingham became Chairman of the 
 State Democratic Executive Committee, and so 
 discharged the duties of that office in the impor- 
 
 tant campaign of that year as to receive the gen- 
 eral commendation of his party, but because of its 
 interference with his professional duties, he de- 
 clined further service. From 1867 to 187 i he was 
 by election City Solicitor of Columbus, Ohio. He 
 
 E. F. r.INGHAM. 
 
 served as a member of the Board of Education 
 from 1863 to 1868, and was re-elected in 1872. 
 In March, 1873, he was elected, without opposi- 
 tion. Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the 
 Fifth Judicial district, and was thrice elected, each 
 term being for five years. At each election he 
 met with no opposition. He was a Delegate to 
 the Democratic National Convention at St. Louis, 
 in 1876, which nominated Samuel J. Tilden 
 for President. He was nominated by the Ohio 
 Democratic State Convention in 1881, as a candi- 
 date for Supreme Judge of the State of Ohio, but 
 with the rest of the ticket was defeated. April 25, 
 1887, while occupying a place on the Ohio Com- 
 mon Pleas bench, he was appointed by President 
 Cleveland Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of 
 the District of Columbia. Judge Bingham has 
 ranked very high as a lawyer. In Ohio he was 
 among the foremost members of the State Bar. 
 He is earnest and forcible, industrious and thor- 
 ough. On the bench his success is even more 
 pronounced than it was as a lawyer, and on and 
 off the bench he is quiet and unassuming, cul- 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 tured, and humane. It may be said of him that 
 few of his decisions have ever been reversed by 
 higher courts. Ji^'dge Bingham was married, No- 
 vember 2 1, 1S50, to Susannah F. Gunning of Fa)-- 
 ette county, Ohio, who died in 1886, leaving two 
 sons and two daughters. The Judge married, 
 August 8, 18SS, Mrs. L. C. Patton, daughter of the 
 late United States Senator Alien T. Carpenter of 
 West Viroinia. 
 
 BINGHAM, Harry, Littleton, for fifty years a 
 leader of the New Hampshire Bar, was born in 
 Concord, A'ermont, March 30, 182 i, son of Warner 
 and Lucy (Wheeler) Bingham. He is descended 
 in the eighth generation from Thomas Bingham, 
 who was admitted to membership in the Cutler's 
 
 H.IRRV BINGHAM. 
 
 Company of Sheffield, England, December 21, 16 14, 
 as a master cutler. Thomas Bingham, 3d, the 
 lirst of the family to come to America, was one 
 of the first landed proprietors of Norwich, Con- 
 necticut, and died in Windham in 1693. War- 
 ner Bingham, who was born in Cornish in 1789, 
 was a State Senator, 1842 and 1843, ''fd Assist- 
 ant Judge of Essex county, Vermont, in 1844. 
 He died in Bethlehem, February 12, 1872. His 
 son Harry attended the common schools of his 
 native town, was fitted for college in Lyndon (Ver- 
 mont) Academy, was graduated from Dartmouth in 
 
 1S43 '^"d began the study of the law with the Hon. 
 David Hibbard at Concord, Vermont, continuing 
 with Geo. C. and Edward Cahoon at Lyndonville, 
 and completing his studies with Hon. Harry Hib- 
 bard in Bath. He was admitted to the Bar in 
 1846, and at once began practice in Littleton. 
 From 1852 to 1859 he was a member of the law 
 firm of H. &: G. A. Bingham, and since that date 
 he has been a member of ^^'oods & Bingham, 1859 
 to 1862; H. & G. A. Bingham, 1862 to 1870; 
 Bingham & Mitchell, 1874 to 1879 ; Bingham, 
 Mitchell & Batchellor, 1879 to 1882 ; Bingham, 
 Mitchells & Batchellor, 1S82 to 1S85, since which 
 date the firm has been Bingham, Mitchell & 
 Batchellor. Mr. Bingham's practice has been 
 extremely large — his briefs in cases argued in the 
 law terms of the Supreme Court are contained in 
 every volume of the New Hampshire Reports froin 
 the twentieth (fifty volumes) — but in his later years 
 he has been less active in his professional work, 
 having given his time more and more largely to 
 recreation, travel, and literature. In 1S80, Dart- 
 mouth College conferred upon him the degree of 
 LL. D. Mr. Bingham has been a life-long Demo- 
 crat, and one of New Hampshire's most distin- 
 guished exponents of the principles of the party. 
 He was elected to the House of Representatives in 
 1S61, and was re-elected in 1862, when he was a 
 candidate for Speaker, 1S63, 1864, 1S65, 1868, 
 1S71, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1875, 1876, 1S77, 187S, 
 1879, 1881, i88g, and 1S91 ; and he was a State 
 Senator for two terms, 1883-1887. He was a 
 member of the Constitutional Convention of 1876. 
 During his legislative service he was always a 
 member of the Committee on the Judiciary, and in 
 
 1871 and 1874, the years of Democratic supremacy, 
 he was its Chairman. In 1865, he was the candi- 
 date of his party for Congress against James W. 
 Patterson, and in 1867 against Jacob Benton. In 
 1867, he was United States Treasury Agent, under 
 President Johnson. He was the Democratic can- 
 didate for LTnited States Senator against Aaron H. 
 Cragin in 1S70 ; against Bainbridge Wadleigh in 
 
 1872 ; against Henry W. Blair in 1879 and 1885 ; 
 against Austin F. Pike in 18S3, and against Wil- 
 liam E. Chandler in 1887 and 1889. Governor 
 Weston named him for Chief Justice in 1874, but 
 he was defeated by a division in the council ; and in 
 1880 he declined an appointment as Justice of the 
 Supreme Court, tendered by Governor Head. Mr. 
 Bingham was a delegate to the Philadelphia Peace 
 Convention of 1866. Two years later he attended 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 167 
 
 the Nalional Convention, which nominated Horatio 
 Seymour for President, on which occasion he acted 
 as proxy for the Hon. Josiah Minot of Concord, 
 member of the National Committee, and was him- 
 self chosen the member of that committee from the 
 state, holding the post until 1872. He was a del- 
 egate to the Baltimore Convention of 1872 which 
 nominated Horace Greeley, the Cincinnati Conven- 
 tion of 1S80 which nominated General Hancock, 
 and the Chicago conventions of 1884 and 1892 
 which nominated Grover Cleveland. In all these 
 conventions he was a member of the Committee on 
 Resolutions. He was on the electoral ticket in 
 1864 and 1888, and in 1896 was a candidate for 
 Elector on the National Democratic ticket. He 
 presided over the State Conventions of 1870, 1872, 
 1S78, and 1896. In his younger days Mr. Bing- 
 ham was connected with the militia, serving as 
 Quartermaster of the Thirty-second Regiment in 
 1849, '^^'^ "IS Aide-de-camp on the brigade staff of 
 General E. O. Kenney in 1851. He is a member 
 of Kappa Kappa Kappa, Dartmouth Cjreek Letter 
 Society, the Granite State Club (political) and the 
 Pilgrim Society. In i886-'88, he was a Director of 
 the Boston, Concord & Montreal Railroad. Since 
 1893 he has been President of the Grafton and 
 Coos Bar Association. Many of his legal argu- 
 ments have been published in full in newspapers 
 and pamphlets ; and he has been the author of 
 numerous addresses and essays on more general 
 topics, covering a wide range. Among the more 
 important titles are : " Centennial Address," deliv- 
 ered at Littleton, July 4, 1876; "Memorial Day 
 Address," Littleton, May, 1880; " Andrew Salter 
 Woods," a memorial address, Dartmouth College, 
 June 23, 1880; "Certain Conditions and Tenden- 
 cies that Imperil the Integrity and Independence 
 of the Judiciary," before the Grafton and Coos Bar 
 Association, 18S2 ; "The Political Situation," 
 Manchester Union, February 14, 18S3 ; "The Life 
 and Democracy of John H, George," before the 
 Granite State Club, June 27, 1888; "The Issues 
 at Stake" (a reply to William E. Chandler), River- 
 side Magazine, 1890; "Oilman Marston," "Na- 
 thaniel W. Westgate," " William S. Ladd," " The 
 Muniments of Constitutional Liberty," " Progress 
 in Asiatic Civilization and its Significance for the 
 Western World," addresses before the Grafton and 
 Coos Bar Association, iS9i-'95 ; "The Rights and 
 Responsibilities of the United States in Reference 
 to the International Relations of the Great Powers 
 of Europe and the Lesser Republic of America," 
 / 
 
 before Marshal Sanders Post, Grand Army of the 
 Republic, Littleton, December 26, 1895; "The 
 Welfare of the Republic the Supreme I, aw," before 
 the Grafton and Coos Bar Association, i8g6 ; "The 
 Present Duty of Democracy," before a ratification 
 meeting of the National Democracy, Manchester, 
 1896; "The Relations of Woman to the Progres- 
 sive Civilization of the Age," 1897; "The Inllu- 
 ence of Religion on Human Progress," annual 
 address before the New Hampshire Historical 
 Society, June 8, 1897 ; "The Annexation of Ha- 
 waii : a Right and a Duty." 
 
 BOU'KER, Charles Harvev, Physician, Berlin, 
 was born in Lisbon, New Hampshire, March 20, 
 1870, son of Mitchell H. and Laura P. (Brooks) 
 
 C. H. BOWKER. 
 
 Bowker. On the paternal side his ancestry is traced 
 back to Edmund Bowker, who settled in Dorchester, 
 Massachusetts, in 1646, being one of three brothers 
 who are supposed to have come from Sweden. 
 There were Bowkers who served in the French and 
 Indian Wars, the Revolutionary War, and the War of 
 18 1 2. Gideon Bowker, great-great-grandfather of the 
 subject of this sketch, who served from the battle of 
 Bunker Hill to the close of the Revolution, was one 
 of the founders of Lunenburg, Vermont. Mitchell 
 H. Bowker was a merchant of Whitefield, and was 
 a member of Governor liusiel's Council, being the 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 first Republican Councillor elected from the fifth 
 district. On his mother's side Dr. Bowker traces 
 his descent from Simeon Brooks, one of the grantees 
 of Alstead, New Hampshire, — his maternal grand- 
 mother was a Bradford, direct descendant from 
 Governor Bradford of the Plymouth Colony. 
 Charles H. Bowker attended the public schools 
 and the High School at Lisbon, and New Hampton 
 Academy. He passed through the freshman year, 
 at New York HomtKopathic College, spending the 
 following years of a medical course at Hahnemann 
 College of Philadelphia, being graduated in 1892. 
 He then took a special course at the New York 
 Post Graduate College in mental and nervous dis- 
 eases and in study of Old School Therapeutics at 
 the University of New York. He also held the 
 position of Resident Surgeon at ^^'ard's Island 
 Hospital (now the Metropolitan Hospital) of six 
 hundred beds, one of the Charities and Correc- 
 tions Institutions of New York city, a position he 
 obtained through a competitive examination. For 
 a year he was in practice with Doctor George Mor- 
 rison of Whitefield, and for a time he owned the 
 Whitefield Publishing Company issuing the White- 
 field Times. Since this was made a stock com- 
 pany he has been its heaviest owner. He owns the 
 Berlin Pharmacy, which was established in 1896. 
 He was active in founding the Androscoggin Hos- 
 pital (of twenty-six beds) in 1894, and has been 
 Attending Surgeon smce that time. He is at pres- 
 ent Secretarj'-Treasurer, and member of the Execu- 
 tive Committee ; was Health Officer of Berlin in 
 1895 and 1896, and was instrumental in securing 
 the present effective filter system adopted for the 
 water supply of the town. He is Physician to the 
 Independent Order of Foresters, Ancient Order 
 of United \\'orkmen. Knights of the Maccabees, 
 Knights of the Golden Cross, Knights of Honor, 
 American Benefit Society, and Pilgrim Fathers. He 
 is local Surgeon for the Boston & Maine Railroad, 
 and Surgeon to the City Fire Department. He is 
 President of the Berlin Co-operative Store Com- 
 pany. In 1890 he was Health Officer in White- 
 field and in 1895 and 1896, as has been stated, he 
 held a similar position in Berlin. He is a Justice 
 of the Peace and a member of the Republican 
 Ward Committee. He is a Republican and active 
 in local politics. He is a Mason, a member of the 
 North Star Commandery of Knights Templar, a 
 Past Grand of Odd Fellows, and a member of 
 Encampment and Canton. He is a member of the 
 Maynesboro Club, Cowasse Club, and of the Sons 
 
 of American Revolution. Mr. Bowker married 
 September 24, 1891, Bertha C. Libbey, daughter 
 of the Hon. G. W. Libbey of Whitefield. 
 
 BUFFUM, Caleb Talbot, was born in Royals- 
 ton, Massachusetts, June 4, 1820, son of James 
 and Ruth (Bliss) Buffum. He is of English de- 
 scent, his ancestors having emigrated from England 
 about the year 1638, and settled in Rhode Island. 
 Caleb Buffum and Nathan Bliss, grandfathers of 
 the subject of this sketch, settled, the first named 
 in Richmond, New Hampshire, and the latter in 
 Royalston, Massachusetts, and both were tillers of 
 the soil. Nathan Bliss also served with credit as a 
 
 C. T. BUFFUM. 
 
 soldier in the Revolutionary War. Mr. Buffum 
 gained his early education in the common schools, 
 with three terms at Keene Academy. He worked 
 upon the farm until he was sixteen years of age, 
 when he went to learn the tailor's trade with Dins- 
 more, White & Lyon, a leading clothing and dry- 
 goods house of Keene, with which he remained for 
 four years. He was employed for a year as a 
 journeyman, but in 1841 formed a partnership with 
 Jonas Parker, under the firm name of Buffum & 
 Parker, and for sixteen years did a successful busi- 
 ness in the manufacture of clothing, and sale of 
 men's furnishing goods, at wholesale and retail. 
 In 1854 he disposed of his business interests in 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 169 
 
 Keene, soon after engaging in the wholesale cloth- 
 ing and furnishing business in Boston, the firm 
 name being Sears, Buffum & Company. Failing 
 health compelled Mr. Buffum, in the fall of 1855, 
 to sever his connection with this firm, and to seek 
 a milder climate. He went to Florida, where he 
 remained until the spring of 1856. Returning, 
 with renewed health, to the North, he soon after 
 formed the firm of C. T. & G. B. Buffum, his part- 
 ner being his brother, and continued in the cloth- 
 ing and furnishing business until January, 187 1, 
 when he retired from active business. As a busi- 
 ness man he was energetic, far-seeing, sagacious, 
 careful and conservative, combining shrewd com- 
 mon sense and good judgment with a great finan- 
 cial ability, and these same qualities have made 
 him one of Keene's most influential residents. He 
 has borne an honored part in the management of 
 many of the city's most important enterprises. He 
 was elected President of the Iveene Five Cent Sav- 
 ings Bank, in June, 187 1, and still holds that posi- 
 tion. He has been a Director in the Ashuelot 
 National Bank since 1875. For a number of years 
 he was President of the Keene Humane Society, 
 and he has held various other positions of trust 
 and responsibility. Although a staunch Republi- 
 can since the birth of the party, Mr. Buffum has 
 never been an aspirant for political honors. He 
 was a Representative from Keene in 1859 ^"^'^ 
 i860, and an Alderman from Ward Four for two 
 years, but these offices comprise the list of those of 
 a political nature which he has accepted. Since 
 his retirement from active business, he has traveled 
 extensively throughout the United States, having 
 passed several winters in Florida, and visited Cali- 
 fornia and the Pacific Slope. One of his special 
 characteristics is an enthusiastic love of nature, 
 and he is an ardent disciple of Izaak Walton. He 
 has an angler's retreat at Silver Lake (town of Har- 
 risville), near Keene, which is open to his friends 
 in summer time, and where he greatly enjoys his 
 summer outings and the charms of camp life. He 
 is a lover of birds, and something of a taxidermist, 
 has a large collection of birds, minerals, etc., and 
 has done something in the collecting of coins. He 
 is a member of the Unitarian Society and of the 
 Unitarian Club, and of the Keene Humane Society. 
 Mr. Buffum was married April ig, 1843, to Susan 
 R., daughter of Lewis Gilmore of Charlestown, 
 New Hampshire. She died December 21, 1854, 
 leaving one child : Ellen A. Buffum, who died at 
 the age of sixteen. He was again married Feb- 
 
 ruary 23, 1857, to Sarah A,, daughter of Asa Strat- 
 ton of Greenfield, Massachusetts, the children of 
 this marriage being Fred Lincoln, born November 
 14, i860, died December 5, 1867, and Susie S. 
 Buffum, born April 19, 1865. 
 
 CHANDLER, William Eaton, United States 
 Senator, Concord, was born in that city, December 
 28, 1835, second son of Nathan S. and Mary Ann 
 Chandler. He was educated in the public schools, 
 and the academies at Thetford, Vermont, and Pem- 
 broke, New Hampshire. He began his law studies 
 in Concord, and attended the Harvard Law School, 
 being graduated with prize honors in 1855. In the 
 
 WM. E. CHANDLER. 
 
 same year he was admitted to the Bar; and for sev- 
 eral years he practiced in Concord, where he made 
 for himself a good name in his profession. In 1859 
 he was appointed Law Reporter of the New Hamp- 
 shire Supreme Court, and published five volumes 
 of Reports. Mr. Chandler was an earnest Republi- 
 can, from the beginning of the party, and gave 
 much of his time to the State Committee, serving 
 first as its Secretary, and in 1864 and 1865 as its 
 Chairman. He was elected to the Legislature in 
 1862, 1863 and 1864, and was twice elected 
 Speaker. In November, 1864, he was employed 
 by the Navy Department as special counsel to pros- 
 ecute the Philadelphia navy yard frauds ; and on 
 
170 
 
 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 March 9, 1S65, was appointed the first Solicitor 
 and Judge Advocate General of that department. 
 On June 17 of the same year, he became Assistant 
 Secretary of the Treasury, resigning the position 
 November 30, 1867, and resuming the practice 
 of his profession. During the next thirteen years, 
 he occupied no official position except that he was 
 a member of the Constitutional Convention in 
 1876, but he continued to take an active part in 
 politics, being a Delegate to the Republican Na- 
 tional Convention in 1868, and Secretary of the 
 National Committee from that time until 1S76. In 
 that year he advocated the claims of the Hayes 
 electors in Florida before the canvassing board 
 of the state and later, was one of the counsel to 
 prepare the case submitted by the Republican side 
 to the Electoral Commission in Washington. Mr. 
 Chandler afterward became an especially out- 
 spoken opponent of the southern policy of the 
 Hayes administration. In iSSo he was a Delegate 
 to the Republican National Convention, and served 
 as a member of the Committee on Credentials, and 
 was the author of the report in favor of district 
 representation, which was adopted by the Conven- 
 tion. During the subsequent campaign, he was a 
 member of the National Committee. On March 23, 
 1881, he was nominated by President Garfield for 
 United States Solicitor General, but was rejected by 
 the Senate, the vote being nearly upon party lines. 
 In June of that year he was again a member of 
 the New Hampshire Legislature, where he favored 
 stringent legislation against bribery at elections, 
 and against the issue of free passes by railways, 
 while he favored legal regulation of freight 
 and fares on railways within the state. On 
 April 7, 1882, he was appointed Secretary of 
 the Navy. Among the important measures carried 
 out by him while holding this office were the sim- 
 plification and reduction of the unwieldy and ex- 
 travagant navy yard establishment ; the limitation 
 of the number of annual appointments of officers to 
 the actual wants of the naval service; the discon- 
 tinuance of the ruinous policy of repairing worth- 
 less wooden vessels; and the beginning of a mod- 
 ern navy in the construction of the four steel 
 cruisers recommended by the Advisory Board, the 
 Chicago, Boston, Atlanta and Dolphin. The or- 
 ganization and successful voyage of the Greely 
 relief expedition in 1884, commanded by Captain 
 W. S. Schley, was largely due to his personal efforts. 
 Mr. Chandler was a strenuous advocate of uniting 
 with the nav)' the other nautical branches of the 
 
 Federal administration, including the lighthouse 
 establishment, the coast survey and the revenue 
 marine, upon the principle, first distinctly set forth 
 by him, that " the officers and seamen of the Navy 
 should be employed to perform all the work of the 
 national government upon or in direct connection 
 with the ocean." He served as Secretary until 
 March 7, 1885. He was elected to the United 
 States Senate, June 14, 1887, to fill the unexpired 
 term of Austin F. Pike, which ended March 3, 
 1889; was re-elected June 18, 1889, and again 
 January 16, 1895. His present term will expire 
 March third, 1901. Mr. Chandler has been 
 twice married, in 1859 to a daughter of Governor 
 Joseph A. Gilmore, and in 1874, to a daughter of 
 the Hon. John P. Hale. He has three sons by his 
 first marriage, Joseph Gilmore, born in i860; Wil- 
 liam Dwight, born in 1863 ; and Lloyd Horwitz 
 Chandler, now an officer in the Navy, born in 
 1869 ; and one son by his second marriage, Isorn in 
 1885, John P. Hale Chandler. 
 
 CHUTTER, Frederick Geoiick, Dry-Goods 
 Merchant, Littleton, was born in Somersetshire, 
 England, September 12, 1857, son of George and 
 
 F. U. CHUTTER. 
 
 Hannah (Pidgeon) Chutter. He began his early 
 education in the private schools of this country. 
 After seven years as a clerk in the dry-goods busi- 
 ness, spent mostly in Boston, he began to study 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 171 
 
 with reference to the ministry. He spent some 
 time in Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, 
 but graduating from Coburn Institute, Waterville, 
 Maine, he entered Colby University in the same 
 city in the following fall. He was graduated from 
 the Theological Seminary at Andover, Massachu- 
 setts, and was settled at once over the First Con- 
 gregational church of Littleton, New Hampshire, 
 which charge he resigned to go abroad for travel 
 and study. He spent one year at the Oxford Uni- 
 versity, and another at the Presbyterian Divinity 
 College in Edinburgh, Scotland, and some time in 
 Paris. He traveled extensively in Europe, going 
 as far North as the Arctic Circle, visiting Egypt, 
 Syria, Asia Minor, and Greece. On his return to 
 this country he received several calls to important 
 churches, but was obliged, on account of ill health, 
 to refuse them and finally to leave the ministry. 
 He has been in the dry-goods business since 1893 
 and has taken much interest in the educational 
 affairs of the town. He is a member of the School 
 Board, and serves on the committee for the exami- 
 nation of schools and teachers. He is a Trustee 
 of the Public Library, and of the Dow Academy of 
 Franconia. He has a decided taste for literary 
 work, having written considerable for the press, 
 and has lectured frequently. In politics he is a 
 Republican. Mr. Chutter was married October 
 19, 1887, at Boston, Massachusetts, to Carolyn 
 Clark Cutler, daughter of the Hon. John Cutler of 
 that city. They have two children : Mildred Caro- 
 lyn and Reginald Frederick Chutter. 
 
 shire in the same year. Mr. Colony carried on a 
 successful legal practice until 1867, when he took 
 an interest in the manufacturing firm of Faulkner 
 & Colony, and upon this firm becoming a corpora- 
 tion he was its first President and Treasurer. Sub- 
 
 COLONY, Horatio, first Mayor of Keene, 
 President and Treasurer of the Cheshire Mills, 
 Harrisville, was born in Keene, November 14, 
 1835, son of Josiah and Hannah (Taylor) Colony. 
 He is of Scotch-Irish ancestry. His great-grand- 
 father, John Colony, who came to this country in 
 1740, served in the French and Indian Wars, and 
 was on the alarm list in the Revolution. Josiah 
 Colony, the father of the subject of this sketch, 
 was a prominent manufacturer of woolen goods. 
 In the maternal line, Mr. Colony is a descendant 
 of the Danforth family of Massachusetts. He 
 received his early education in the public schools 
 and Keene Academy, studied under a private 
 tutor, read law in the office of the Hon. Levi 
 Chamberlain in Keene, and attended the Albany 
 Law School, from which he was graduated in i860. 
 He was admitted to the New York Bar at Albany, 
 and to the Cheshire County Bar of New Hamp- 
 
 ilORATIO COLONV. 
 
 sequently he became interested in the Cheshire 
 mills of Harrisville, and he has since been the 
 Company's President and Treasurer. He is a 
 Director in the Cheshire, \\'inchester and Citizens' 
 National lianks, and is President of the Keene 
 Steam Power Company. Notwithstanding the 
 demands made upon his time by his private 
 interests, Mr. Colony has served with distinction in 
 the conduct of public affairs. He was a member 
 of the Board of Labor Statistics under Governor 
 Weston. When Keene became a city he was its 
 first Mayor, and was re-elected at its next munici- 
 pal election. He was a delegate to the Demo- 
 cratic National Convention in 1868; was a 
 Representative to the Legislature, from Ward 5, 
 Keene, in 1877, at which session he was the Dem- 
 ocratic candidate for Speaker, and served on the 
 Judiciary Committee. Mr. Colony is President of 
 the Cheshire County Humane Society. He is a 
 member of several Masonic bodies, including Social 
 Friends Lodge, and Hugh de Payens Command- 
 ery, Ivnights Templar, etc. He married, Decem- 
 ber TO, 1S63, Emeline Eames Joslin. They have 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 three children : John Joslin, Charles Taylor, and 
 Kate, wife of Colonel James A. Frye of Boston, 
 Massachusetts. 
 
 EDGERLY, Frank Gilman, High Sheriff of 
 Merrimack County, Concord, was born in Mere- 
 dith, New Hampshire, February 19, 1S53, son of 
 William M. and Lydia (Fogg) Edgerly. He is of 
 English descent. In 1664, Thomas Edgerly emi- 
 grated to America and settled in that part of New 
 Hampshire now known as Durham. He was a 
 well educated man and, in the early history of the 
 state, was a Justice and tried many important 
 cases in which he manifested a strong and sound 
 
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 among the most substantial people of the northern 
 part of Belknap county. He attended the public 
 schools of his native town up to his sixteenth year, 
 when he went to Concord and served an appren- 
 ticeship in the office of the Independent Demo- 
 crat, afterwards the Independent Statesman. 
 He was connected with these papers as a printer 
 for fourteen years. In 1883, he started a printing 
 establishment for himself, in which he continued 
 as owner until 1889. While engaged in that busi- 
 ness, he gained a reputation throughout the state 
 for artistic work. Subsequently, he became a real 
 estate broker in which he was very successful. In 
 
 1893, he was appointed Deputy Sheriff, for Merri- 
 mack county, and on April i, 1895, assumed the 
 office of High Sheriff, which office he still retains. 
 When Mr. Edgerly was re-elected in 1896, he 
 received the largest plurality vote ever given to 
 any High Sheriff in his county. In the adminis- 
 tration of his office, he has manifested fine execu- 
 tive ability, and has demonstrated that the voters 
 of Merrimack county exercised good judgment in 
 placing him in the position. He is also jailor 
 and in the management of that institution, has 
 always preserved the interests of the people in 
 every particular. In i889-'9o, he was a member of 
 the Legislature. Mr. Edgerly is a Thirty-second 
 Degree Mason in the Ancient and Accepted Rite, 
 a member of Blazing Star Lodge, No. 11, Free and 
 Accepted Masons, in which he has officiated as 
 Worshipful Master for two years ; of Trinity Chap- 
 ter, Royal Arch Masons, which he has served as 
 High Priest for two years ; Horace Chase Council, 
 Royal and Select Masters, officiating as Thrice 
 Illustrious Master for two years ; Mt. Horeb Com- 
 mandery, Knights Templar, and of Aleppo Temple, 
 Order of the Mystic Shrine, of Boston. Of the 
 benevolent organizations, he is a member of the 
 White Mountain Lodge, No. 5, Independent Order 
 of Odd Fellows, and Concord Lodge, No. 8, 
 Knights of Pythias, being a Past Chancellor and a 
 life member of the Grand Lodge of Knights of 
 Pythias, of New Hampshire ; and is a member of 
 the Manchester (New Hampshire) Lodge No. 146, 
 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Also, 
 of the higher degrees of Freemasonry, he is a 
 life member of the Order of High Priesthood of 
 New Hampshire ; of the Grand Council of Royal 
 and Select Masters of New Hampshire, and of the 
 Grand Royal Arch Chapter of New Hampshire. 
 He is a member of the Derryfield Club of Man- 
 chester, of the Wonolancet Club of Concord, of the 
 New Hampshire Press Association, and of the New 
 Hampshire Historical Society. In politics he is a 
 Republican, and for a number of years has been 
 prominent in the councils of that party. He is a 
 member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, and has 
 been vestryman of the church for several years. 
 Mr. Edgerly married, April i, 1893, Anna M. 
 Swasey of Lisbon, New Hampshire. They have 
 one child, Lydia Edgerly, born July 4, 1894. 
 
 EMERY, George Henr-^-, Harness Manufac- 
 turer and Merchant, Concord, New Hampshire, 
 was born in Stratham, New Hampshire, May 12, 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 173 
 
 1836, son of Joseph and Sophronia (Moore) Emery. 
 In the paternal line he traces his descent through 
 Ichabod Emery, born April 21, 1771; Job, born 
 January 29, 1745 ; Joseph, born February 24, 1702 ; 
 Job, born in 1670; James, born in England about 
 1630; to Anthony, born in Ramsey, Hants, Eng- 
 land, about 1600, who, on April 3, 1635, in com- 
 pany with his brother, John, sailed from South- 
 ampton for America in the ship James of London, 
 William Cooper, Master, and arrived in Boston 
 June 3. Beyond Anthony, the line is traced to 
 Gilbert D'Amory, who came to England with Wil- 
 liam the Conqueror. George H. Emery lost his 
 father in infancy, but the boy was carefully nur- 
 tured by a devoted mother, until at the age of 
 eleven he went to live with an uncle at Concord, 
 New Hampshire, where he passed through the 
 graded schools. At fifteen he resolved to learn a 
 trade, and, accordingly, entered the shop of his 
 cousin, James R. Hill, a successful harness maker. 
 He thoroughly mastered the trade, and evinced a 
 great aptitude for the business. When he 'had 
 served his time, he again took up his studies and 
 made great progress, devoting much of his time to 
 bookkeeping. When about nineteen he went to 
 Chicago, where after a time he entered Bell's Com- 
 mercial College and graduated with honor. Soon 
 after, he entered the employ, as bookkeeper, of a 
 large wholesale and retail establishment of sad- 
 dlery and leather goods, representing the senior 
 partner's interest in the business. This relation 
 continued until the firm closed its business, when 
 Mr. Emery entered Rjell's College as Tutor, soon 
 being called to the professorship of the bookkeep- 
 ing department. He came East in the summer of 
 1859 with the intention of making a short visit, 
 but a very flattering offer from his old employer, 
 Mr. James R. Hill, induced him to remain. His 
 energy was soon manifested in the management of 
 the affairs of the concern, where he introduced the 
 most modern system. When the War of 1861 
 broke out, he obtained large government contracts 
 for his employer. At the close of the war, a co- 
 partnership was formed, composed of James R. 
 Hill, George H. Emery, and J. E. Dwight, under 
 the firm name of James R. Hill & Company, and 
 Mr. Emery was constituted the managing partner 
 of the firm. Since that time indomitable energy 
 and perseverance have made the name of '-The 
 Concord Harness " well known all over the world. 
 At the death of the senior partner in 1884, the sur- 
 viving partners, who became sole owners, continued 
 
 the business under the same firm name until 1888, 
 when a stock company was formed with Mr. Emery 
 as President. The firm has long competed for 
 England's trade among her near and distant colo- 
 nies. Mr. Emery received the three first degrees 
 in Free Masonry in Cleveland Lodge, Chicago, in 
 1858; was a projector and charter member of 
 Eureka Lodge ; is a member of Trinity Royal 
 Arch Chapter, of Mount Horeb Commandery of 
 Knights Templar, and is a Thirty-second degree 
 Mason. He is also a member of White Mountain 
 Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of 
 the Wonolancet Club. In politics he is a Repub- 
 lican. He was a member of the City Council for 
 
 GEO. H. EMERY. 
 
 six years, and for two years the President of that 
 body. Mr. Emery married on September 22, 1861, 
 Abbie VV. Clarke, a descendant of Nathaniel Clarke, 
 who settled in Newbury, Massachusetts, about 1640. 
 They have three daughters : Elizabeth Cyrene, Lil- 
 lian Abbie, wife of Charles W. Walworth, of Law- 
 rence, Massachusetts, and Hattie Sophia, wife of 
 George R. Gushing, Jr., of Concord, New Hamp- 
 shire. 
 
 GREENLEAF, Charles Henry, State Senator 
 and Proprietor of the Profile House, Franconia, 
 New Hampshire, and Hotel Vendome, Boston, 
 Massachusetts, was born in Danville, Vermont, 
 July 23, 1841, son of Seth and Lydia Hall (Burn- 
 
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 ham) Greenleaf. He comes of a family long resi- 
 dent in northern New Hampshire, and he himself 
 has been a resident of the state since a verj' early 
 age, his parents removing from Vermont to Haver- 
 hill when he was less than three months old. Sub- 
 sequently, they changed their residence to Concord, 
 where the son was educated in public and private 
 schools. Colonel Greenleaf developed an early 
 liking for hotel life, and gained practical experi- 
 ence in the business in leading hotels in Washing- 
 ton, New York, Boston, and the White Mountains, 
 where, after two seasons at the Crawford House, 
 he joined his fortunes with those of the Profile 
 House, with which he has been connected for 
 thirty-eight years. In 1S65 the opportunity came 
 to him to assist in the management of the house, 
 the firm being Taft, Tyler & Greenleaf. In 1868 
 the firm was changed to Taft & Greenleaf, the 
 partnership continuing until the death of Mr. Taft 
 in 1881, since which time Colonel Greenleaf has 
 been in sole charge of the house. From its begin- 
 ning, his career has been marked by great success, 
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 house, but he also has done much in building up 
 the tourist and summer visitor business in the 
 White Mountain regions. He had received many 
 
 was not until twelve years ago that he decided to 
 extend his interests outside of the state, and as the 
 senior partner in the firm of C. H. Greenleaf &: 
 Company, leased the Hotel Vendome in Boston. 
 Among other enterprises in which he has engaged 
 is the Profile and Franconia Notch Railroad, of 
 which for eleven years he was Treasurer and Mana- 
 ger. Colonel Greenleaf has been an important 
 factor in Republican politics for a number of years. 
 He was a delegate to the National Convention 
 which gave Benjamin Harrison his first nomination 
 for the Presidency; in i895-'96 he was a member 
 of the Legislature from Franconia, and in iSgy-'gS 
 a member of the State Senate. He took an active 
 part in the deliberations of that body, and made an 
 enviable record; and in the spring of 1898 he was 
 induced to enter the lists for the nomination for 
 the Governorship, a candidacy which brought him 
 flattering evidences of his popularity. He with- 
 drew, however, as his business interests would not 
 permit of his making an aggressive canvass. Colo- 
 nel Greenleaf gained his title as a member of Gov- 
 ernor Prescott's staff. He is a member of the Art 
 Club of Boston and of the Derryfield and Calumet 
 Clubs of Manchester. He is Vice-President of the 
 New England Summer Resort Association. Colo- 
 nel Greenleaf was married May 17, 1867, to Abbie 
 Frances Burnham. They have no children. 
 
 GERRISH, Enoch, Retired Farmer and Lumber 
 Dealer, Concord, was born in Boscawen, July 28, 
 1822, son of Isaac and Caroline (Lawrence) Ger- 
 rish. He is in the seventh generation from Wil- 
 liam Gerrish, who came to Newburyport in 1635. 
 His grandfather, Enoch Gerrish, was a Lieutenant 
 in the Revolutionary War, and his great-grand- 
 father, Stephen Gerrish, was one of the first set- 
 tlers of the town of Boscawen, going there in 1735. 
 Mr. Gerrish was educated at the academies in his 
 native place, and at Meriden. He then engaged 
 in farming, and dealt in wood and lumber. He 
 has been one of the Trustees of the New Hamp- 
 shire Savings Bank for thirty-five years, being one 
 of the Investing Committee for twenty-one years. 
 He is a charter member of the Rolfe and Ruraford 
 Asylum. He held all the offices in the Twenty- 
 First Regiment of the New Hampshire militia, 
 from Ensign in 1840 to Colonel 1848-49, and has 
 been Justice of the Peace for fifty years. Mr. Ger- 
 
 flattering offers to take the management of other rish is a Mason, a member of Mt. Horeb Com- 
 great hotels in various parts of the country, but it mandery. In politics he is a Republican. For 
 
MEN UF PROGRESS. 
 
 175 
 
 five years he was Moderator in Boscawen, and for 
 four years served as Selectman and Overseer of the 
 Poor. He was a member of the Legislature in 
 i8So-'8i,and of the State Senate in 1887-88. 
 For two years he has been Assessor in Concord. 
 
 ENOCH UERKISH. 
 
 He married, May 23, 1854, Miranda O. Lawrence. 
 They ha\'e two children : Frank L., of Boscawen, 
 and Lizzie INL Gerrish, wife of E. W. W'illard, Con- 
 cord, New Hampshire. 
 
 HAI^DY, Silas, Lawyer and Merchant, Iveene, 
 was born in Nelson, New Hampshire, April 3, 
 1827, son of Noah and Jerusha (Kimball) Hardy. 
 His father was a Captain in the militia, and was 
 born in Nelson, September 16, 1789, and died 
 there November 28, 1862. His mother was born 
 in the same town August 13, 1790, and died there 
 January 11, 1854. His paternal grandfather, also 
 Noah Hardy, was born in Hollis, New Hampshire, 
 in 1758, and died in Antrim, December 12, 1835. 
 He removed from Hollis to Nelson just after the 
 Revolution, and became a Deacon of the Orthodox 
 church. Early in the war, when a mere boy, he 
 was enrolled as a minute man in the cavalry 
 reserve at Hollis, and was twice called out to go 
 to Bennington, Vermont, and once to Rhode 
 Island, but never participated in an actual battle. 
 Through his paternal grandmother, Sarah (Spof- 
 
 ford) Hardy, he is descended from John Spofford 
 who came to Rowley, Massachusetts, from York- 
 shire, England, in 1638, and who was the ancestor 
 of all the Spoffords in the United States and Can- 
 ada. The old farm at Georgetown, Massachusetts, 
 is still in the Spofford family, and periodical 
 reunions are held there. Mr. Hardy's maternal 
 grandfather, David Kimball, was born in Boxford, 
 Massachusetts, served over three years in the Rev- 
 olutionary War, enlisting in that town in April. 
 1777, in a Massachusetts regiment, under Captain 
 Daniel Lane and Col. Ichabod Alden. He was in 
 the battle of Stillwater and wintered at Valley 
 Forge. At the expiration of his service, he again 
 enlisted as a substitute for six months, and served 
 under Captain Wilder in Colonel Jackson's Massa- 
 chusetts regiment. He was present in the camp 
 at West Point at the capture of Major Andre, 
 being on detail at Washington's headquarters. 
 He saw Washington when he read the papers 
 taken from Andre's boot. His name was entered 
 on the pension roll in 1820, and his military record 
 is on file in the pension department. He married 
 Lydia Simmons of Boxford, Massachusetts, whose 
 father and brother were killed at the battle of 
 Bunker Hill. David Kimball settled in Nelson 
 soon after the close of the war, and died there 
 October 18, 1S42, at the age of ninety-two. Noah 
 Hardy, the father of Silas, was a farmer for a few 
 years until by an accident he lost a leg, when he 
 learned the trades of shoe and harness-maker. 
 He had ten children, all living to mature age. 
 The subject of this sketch, the eighth child, spent 
 his early life on the farm and in the shop. Owing 
 to the large family and the limited means of his 
 father, he was "put out" to a farmer at the age of 
 eleven, and worked away from home until of full 
 age, except for a few months in cold weather. His 
 earnings during this time were over seven hundred 
 dollars. The people among whom he lived were 
 honest and industrious but illiterate, and the only 
 opportunity he had for an education in boyhood 
 after eleven years of age, was from six to twelve 
 weeks each year in a country school. He had but 
 little access to books or papers, but improved 
 every opportunity. The winter before his majority 
 he taught a district school. He had a strong 
 desire for an education. The next four years he 
 spent in hard work, and in teaching and fitting for 
 college, receiving no pecuniary aid. In 1852 he 
 entered the Sophomore class in Dartmouth College, 
 graduating in 1855 with the degree of A. B. He 
 
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 MEN OF PR(^GRESS. 
 
 had the honor of being a selected speaker at the 
 commencement. In his class were Hon. Nelson 
 Dingley, Chief Justice Field of Massachusetts, and 
 Judges Allen and Ladd of the New Hampshire 
 Supreme Court. For one 3'ear after his graduation 
 Mr. Hardy was Principal of Foxcroft Academy, 
 Maine, and then entered the office of Hon. Levi 
 Chamberlain at Keene as a law student. During 
 this time, and until admitted to the Bar, he was 
 compelled to struggle with poverty, having no rela- 
 tives of means to aid him, but he pressed steadily 
 forward with eye on the goal, never looking back. 
 In September, 1858, he was admitted to the Bar of 
 New Hampshire, at the term in Sullivan county, of 
 the Supreme Court. He began practice in Keene 
 at once. From March, 1859, to March, 1864, he 
 was Register of Probate, by appointment of the 
 Governor, and from 1S64 to 1S74 he was Judge of 
 Probate for Cheshire county. Since then he has 
 confined himself to his regular profession, and has 
 been very successful. He has done a large busi- 
 ness as a pension attorney, and many a veteran in 
 his section of the state, and many widows and 
 
 
 SILAS HARDY. 
 
 orphans of veterans have occasion to be grateful 
 to him. He has settled many estates. Though 
 his charges as attorney have been proverbially low 
 yet, being industrious and economical, he has accu- 
 mulated a comfortable estate. He served as 
 
 Engrossing Clerk of the New Hampshire Legisla- 
 ture in 1S60 and 1861, and was a member of the 
 Constitutional Convention in 1876. During the 
 last six years he has owned a drj'-goods store in 
 Keene in addition to attending to his professional 
 duties. He has always taken an interest in public 
 affairs and politics, and has held a number of offi- 
 cial positions and various offices in banking institu- 
 tions, and is now President of the Winchester 
 National Bank. In politics Mr. Hardy has been 
 a Republican since the organization of the party 
 in 1856, and has voted for all its presidential nom- 
 inees, and attended many state conventions and 
 many lesser ones. He has been City Solicitor, 
 Alderman, and a member of the School Board. 
 Mr. Hardy was married December 31, 1863, to 
 Josephine M., daughter of Alonzo and Sophia H. 
 Kingsley of Winchester. She was a graduate of 
 Mt. Holyoke Seminary in the class of 1857. Mrs. 
 Hardy died June 19, 1871, leaving one child ten 
 weeks old, Ashley Kingsley Hardy. This son was 
 instructed by his father at home until he entered 
 Keene High School at the age of sixteen, where he 
 prepared for college. He entered Dartmouth Col- 
 lege in 1890 with a high rank, and was graduated 
 in 1894, being the Valedictorian of his class. He 
 then spent three years in Germany at the Berlin 
 and Leipzig Universities. Returning in October, 
 1897, he took a position at Dartmouth as an 
 Instructor in German. He has since been elected 
 Instructor for three years, with leave of absence for 
 one year, and has returned to Leipzig to complete 
 the course marked out and receive the degree of 
 Ph. D. This son, having been thus early deprived 
 of his natural mother, came under the care of 
 Miss Esther Hills — a member of the family, who 
 acted as his foster-mother through his minority — 
 whose excellent teaching and discipline contributed 
 largely to the moulding and shaping of his high 
 character. They are to each other in their mutual 
 feelings and respect as parent and child. 
 
 HAMBLETT, Charles Judson, was born in 
 Nashua, January 31, 1862, son of Judson A., and 
 Mary J. (Perkins) Hamblett. When he was five 
 years of age, he removed with his family to Mil- 
 ford, where he attended school, graduating at the 
 Milford High School in 1880. He then attended 
 a private school for a year, after which he pursued 
 his studies at Francestown Academy, a preparatory 
 school, taking the four years' course in two years. 
 After being graduated from Francestown Academy 
 
MEN ()F PROGRESS. 
 
 177 
 
 in 1883, he commenced the study of law in the 
 office of Robert M. Wallace of Milford, and the 
 office of Bainbridge Wadleigh in Boston, and was 
 graduated from the Boston University of Law in 
 1889. He began the practice of law in Nashua, on 
 
 C. J. HAMELETT. 
 
 the 15th of October, 18S9. In 1S87 he was elected 
 Assistant Clerk of the New Hampshire Senate, 
 and was re-elected in 1889. In 189 1 and 1893 he 
 was elected Clerk of that body. In 1891 he was 
 elected City Solicitor of the city of Nashua, and 
 was re-elected to that office in 1892, 1893, and 
 1894. He was married October 4, 1894, to Geor- 
 gie Ellen Stevens, daughter of Uavid and Cornelia 
 Stevens. He has one child by this marriage, a 
 daughter: Mary Stevens Hamblett. Mr. Hamb- 
 lett was appointed United States District Attorney 
 by President McKinley in March, 1898, and 
 assumed the duties of his office on March 16. 
 
 HASTINGS, Thomas Nelson, Walpole, was 
 born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 23, 1858, 
 son of T. Nelson and Harriet M. (Holland) Has- 
 tings. His grandfather, Thomas Hastings, was a 
 very successful merchant of East Cambridge, 
 being for a number of years in the firm of Hast- 
 ings & Dana, wholesale grocers. T, Nelson 
 Hastings, Sr., who died when his son was only 
 nine months old, was a man of much influence. 
 
 and was for years a member of the Commercial 
 Exchange of Boston. Mr. Hastings's great-grand- 
 father on his mother's side was Doctor Abraham 
 Holland, a graduate of Dartmouth College, and the 
 third physician to practice in Walpole where he 
 was very prominent in his profession for forty 
 years. His son Ephraim, born in 1790, was in the 
 War of 1812, and his grandson, Henry E., was a 
 Surgeon in the Civil War. The subject of this 
 sketch acquired his elementary education in the 
 public schools of Walpole, whither his mother 
 removed upon the death of his father. He after- 
 ward attended Warren Academy at Woburn, Mass- 
 achusetts, and the Massachusetts Institute of 
 Technology, where he pursued a course in archi- 
 tecture. From 1882 to 1888 he lived in Cambridge, 
 and was engaged in various business enterprises in 
 Boston. In 1882 he built the Bijou Theatre in that 
 city, and conducted it with George Tyler as Mana- 
 ger. While owner of the Bijou, he introduced the 
 electric lighting system. Being a warm personal 
 friend of Mr. Edison's, he became a pioneer in 
 introducing his new invention to the public, putting 
 in over seven hundred lights. He also placed in 
 the theatre, six magnificent chandeliers that had 
 been made to send to Egypt. During this time, he 
 was interested also in the Boston Tobacco Com- 
 pany, and was for three years its President. He 
 was a charter member of the old Boston Bicycle Club, 
 and at the first bicycle race ever held in Suffolk 
 county, took the first prize. In 1880, with four 
 other members, he made a cycling trip abroad, the 
 first trip of the kind ever made, and the " Fortu- 
 nate Five," as they were termed, were entertained 
 by the Bicycle Club of London, then composed 
 exclusively of men of wealth and noble family. 
 They were made members of the Bicycle Touring 
 Club of England. Mr. Hastings extended his trip, 
 making a pleasure tour in Germany, Switzerland, 
 and other countries. In politics he is an earnest 
 Republican. Serving in the State Senate during 
 the biennial term, i897-'98, at his election receiv- 
 ing the largest vote in the town. He was Chair- 
 man of the Committee on Agriculture, Secretary of 
 Education Committee and of the Committee on 
 Incorporations, and a member of the Committee on 
 Labor. He is extremely popular on account of 
 his genial and amiable qualities and his liberal 
 hospitality, and with his commanding height and 
 presence he makes a notable figure at the State 
 Capitol. Mr. Hastings is a good judge of horse 
 flesh, and is said to be one of the most skillful of 
 
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 MKN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 four-in-hand whips, his coal black horses constitu- 
 ting one of the finest four-in-hand teams in the 
 state. He has always taken a most active interest 
 in the affairs of \\'alpole, and has identified himself 
 in ever)' way with its social and educational life. 
 He has been a member of the School Committee 
 for several years, is a liberal supporter of the 
 Unitarian Church, and is Chairman of its Execu- 
 
 T. N. HASTINGS. 
 
 tive Committee. In 1896 he presented the Uni- 
 tarian Society with the Hastings Memorial Parish 
 House. He was an interested mover in placing in 
 the church the fine organ which was the gift of 
 G. A. Stearns. He is a loyal and active member 
 of the Masonic fraternity. Js a Thirty-second 
 degree Mason, and a member of Hugh de l^aj'ens 
 Commandery, Knights Templar, of Keene, New 
 Hampshire. On July 14, 1SS2, Mr. Hastings mar- 
 ried Amy, daughter of the late Hudson E. Bridge 
 of St. Louis. Five children were born to them, ol 
 whom four are living: Thomas N., Jr., Hudson 
 Bridge, Russell, and Henry Winthrop Hastings. 
 
 setts, about 1630, and one branch of whose 
 descendants are the Hatches of Falmouth, Massa- 
 chusetts. One of his sons, or grandsons, removed 
 to Tolland, Connecticut, and from that town, 
 Joseph Hatch, great-grandfather of the subject of 
 this sketch, made his way into the New Hamp- 
 shire wilderness and became one of the pioneers 
 in Alstead. Asa Hatch, son of Joseph, served in 
 the Revolutionary War, for which service he subse- 
 quently received a pension, and was one of the 
 first settlers of Williamstown. His wife was Jane 
 Black of Alstead. Alvah Hatch, son of Asa, was 
 born in Williamstown, August 6, 1798. His wife, 
 who was born April 19, 1805, was a daughter of 
 Rufus and T. C. (Bass) Burnham, both of whom 
 were natives of Windham, Connecticut, whence the 
 families removed to Williamstown in the early days 
 of that place's history. Riley B. Hatch attended 
 the public schools, was fitted for college at New 
 Salem (Massachusetts) Academy and Saxton's 
 River (Vermont) Seminary, entered Middlebury 
 College, and was graduated in 1857. For three 
 years he taught in the academies at Swanzev and 
 
 R., B. HATCH. 
 
 HATCH, Rii.EV Burnham, Lawyer, Peter- 
 borough, was born in Williamstown, Vermont, Peterborough, beginning the study of the law in the 
 October 19, 1832, son of Alvah and Laura (Burn- latter town. Being admitted to the Bar in Septem- 
 ham) Hatch. He comes of good old New England ber, 1S62, he began the practice of his profession 
 stock, his descent in the paternal line being traced to in Peterborough. In addition to his legal business 
 the Hatch, who settled in Dorchester, I\[assachu- Mr. Hatch has had a number of important and 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 179 
 
 lucrative interests, in insurance, banking, and rail- 
 roads, and for nearly ten years (from 1864 to 1873) 
 he was Treasurer of the Peterborough Savings 
 Bank. He has been honored with a number of 
 town offices, and has been concerned in the man- 
 agement of school and library affairs. He was a 
 Member of the Legislature in i868-'69 and in 
 i8g3-'94; and was a Member of the Constitutional 
 Convention of 1889. In politics he is a Republi- 
 can. He is a member of the Altamont Lodge, 
 Free and Accepted Masons, of which he is a Past 
 Master, and of Peterborough Chapter, Royal Arch 
 Masons. Mr. Hatch married, April 3, i860, 
 Ellen Maria Nichols. On November 26, 1863, he 
 married Ellen Maria Barber. He has two daugh- 
 ters : Ida Frances and Ellen Maria Hatch. 
 
 Masons of Lowell, Massachusetts. In politics he 
 is a Republican. Doctor Hill was married October 
 29, 1890, to Grace Wright Gerrish. 
 
 HILL, Alwon Ward, Physician, Concord, was 
 born in Lowell, Massachusetts, June 27, 1864, son 
 of Hosea B. and Rachel O. (Norris) Hill. He re- 
 ceived his education in the public schools of Low- 
 ell, at Brown University, graduating in 1884, and 
 at the Boston University Medical School, from 
 which he was graduated in 1887. He began prac- 
 
 A. W. HILL. 
 
 tice in Lowell in that year, and remained until 
 October, 1896, when he removed to Concord, 
 where he now resides. He was a member of the 
 School Board of Lowell from 1887 to 189 1. He is 
 a member of Pawtucket Lodge, Free and Accepted 
 
 HOPKINS, Charles Burton, Agent of the 
 Brightwood Mills, Hinsdale, was born in Chester- 
 field Factory, New Hampshire, May 16, 1855, son 
 of Richard Henry and Ellen Merrill (Newton) Hop- 
 
 C. B. HOPKINS. 
 
 kins. He traces his ancestry back to Richard 
 Hopkins, who went to Chesterfield in 1787. His 
 father removed from that town in 1870, going to 
 Hinsdale, where he engaged in the manufacture of 
 paper. Charles Hopkins was educated in the 
 schools in his native town and in Hinsdale ; at 
 Powers Institute, Bernardston, Massachusetts ; at 
 Leland and Gray Seminary, Townshend, Vermont ; 
 and at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, New 
 Hampshire. He was for a time in the paper 
 manufacturing business, and in July, 1877, became 
 Agent for the Brightwood Mills, which position he 
 has held ever since. He has been a member of 
 the Board of Education for six years, and was a 
 member of the last Constitutional Convention in 
 New Hampshire. He is a Mason, a member of 
 Aleppo Temple, Boston, Massachusetts ; of Hugh 
 De Payens Commandery, Keene, New Hampshire ; 
 and an Odd Fellow, a member of the Order of Red 
 Men, and of the Foresters, in Hinsdale. He is a 
 member of the Republican State Committee. 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 HAZELTON, George Cochrane, Lawyer, Wash- 
 ington, District of Columbia, was born in Chester, 
 Rockingham county, son of William and Mercy J. 
 (Cochrane) Hazelton. He is in the seventh gen- 
 eration from Robert Hazelton, who came to Salem, 
 
 GEO. C. HAZELTON. 
 
 Massachusetts, in 1637, and in 1649 settled in 
 Bradford, Massachusetts, on the Merrimack river. 
 His descendants followed the march of civilization 
 into New Hampshire. He was educated in the 
 common schools and at Pinkerton Academy, Derry, 
 and Dummer Academy, Oldtown, Massachusetts. 
 He was graduated from Union College, Schenec- 
 tady, New York, in 1858, with the degree of A. B. 
 The same year he was admitted to the Bar of the 
 State of New York, began practice in Schenectady, 
 removing to Wisconsin in 1863, where he prac- 
 ticed until 1882 in all the State and United States 
 Courts, including the United States Supreme Court. 
 Since 1883 he has been in practice in Washington, 
 District of Columbia, and is now in the Washing- 
 ton Loan and Trust Building with his son, John H. 
 Hazelton. He was District Attorney for Grant 
 county, Wisconsin ; State Senator for four years, 
 being President pro tempore of the Senate during 
 his second term. He was elected to Congress in 
 1876, from the Third Congressional District of 
 Wisconsin, and was twice re-elected, making six 
 years' service. He was Chairman of the Com- 
 
 mittee of Pacific Railroads, a member of the Com- 
 mittee of Elections, and also of the Committee of 
 Private Land Claims. He was Attorney for the 
 District of Columbia during the administration of 
 Harrison. In politics he has always been a Repub- 
 lican. Mr. Hazelton married, November, 1863, 
 Ellen Van Antwerp of Schenectady, New York, 
 who was born at Mobile, Alabama, September 19, 
 1845. They have two children living: George C, 
 Jr., and John Hampden Hazelton. The former is at 
 the head of the Keystone Law & Patent Company 
 of Philadelphia, and the latter is engaged in the 
 practice of law with his father at Washington. 
 Two children died in infancy : Henry Maurice, born 
 January 17, 1866, who died October 4, 1867, and 
 Alice Hazelton, born July 22, 1873, who died July 
 8, 1875. Mr. HazeltSn cherishes an abiding love 
 for New England and yearly comes back to visit 
 the scenes of his childhood and the many relatives 
 and friends who never fail to greet .his return 
 with a warm and generous welcome. 
 
 JEWETT, Stephen Shannon, Lawyer, Laconia, 
 was born in Gilford, now Laconia, September 18, 
 1858, son of John G. and Carrie E. (Shannon) 
 Jewett. In the paternal line he is descended in the 
 ninth generation from Maximillian Jewett who 
 came from England to Rowley, Massachusetts, in 
 1639. His great-grandfather was one of the first 
 settlers of what is now Laconia, having gone there 
 in 1780, after his service in the War of the Revolu- 
 tion and having fought at the battle of Bunker 
 Hill. Stephen S. Jewett attended the public 
 schools of Laconia and Gilford Academy and also 
 received private instruction from his father who for 
 many years was a school teacher. During his boy- 
 hood and youth Mr. Jewett had some experience in 
 a variety of occupations, working in a woolen mill, 
 printing office, dry goods store, machine shop, 
 paint shop, on the farm and keeping school. At 
 the age of seventeen he began to read law in the 
 office of Charles F. Stone of Laconia, who was sub- 
 sequently Naval Officer at the Port of Boston, and 
 continued in this office until his first Bar examina- 
 tion when he was admitted, March 17, 1880. Mr. 
 Jewett began active practice of law at Laconia im- 
 mediately upon his admission to the Bar and there 
 he has remained ever since. His practice has been 
 large and lucrative. He is a member of the Bar pi 
 the United States Circuit, District, and Supreme 
 Courts as well as of the State Courts. He practiced 
 alone until September i, 1889, when he was associ- 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 ated with William A. Plummer who has remained 
 with him ever since, the firm name being Jewett 
 & Plummer. He is interested in many of 
 the most important enterprises in his city; 
 is a Director of the Laconia National Bank, 
 a Trustee of the City Savings Bank, a Di- 
 rector and Solicitor for the Laconia Building eV- 
 Loan Association, a Director of the Masonic Tem- 
 ple Association, and a Director of several local cor- 
 porations. In politics Colonel Jewett is a strong 
 Republican and for many years he has been an 
 active worker, both in and out of the state ; was 
 Secretary of the New fiampshire Republican State 
 Committee from iSgo to 1892 ; Chairman of the 
 same committee from 1S92 to 1S96 ; was Sergeant- 
 at-Arms of the New Hampshire Delegation to the 
 Republican National Convention at Minneapolis, in 
 1892 ; Delegate at Large and Chairman of the New 
 Hampshire Delegation to the Republican National 
 Convention at St. Louis, in 1896; and a member of 
 the Executive Committee of the National Republi- 
 can League. He has been City Solicitor of Ijaco- 
 nia since its incorporation as a city, in the spring 
 
 S. S. JEWETT. 
 
 of 1893. He was Engrossing Clerk of the New 
 Hampshire Legislature in 1883, and was Clerk of 
 Belknap County Supreme Court, in 1884. From 
 1887 to 1889 he was Assistant Clerk of the New 
 ffampshire House of Representatives and from 
 
 1891 to 1893 was Clerk of the same body. He 
 was a member of the Legislature from January, 
 1895, to January, 1S99, being Speaker of the House 
 in 1895, and a member of the Judiciary Committee 
 in the session of 1897. He is a member of the 
 Home Market Club of Boston, of the New Hamp- 
 shire Club, of the New Hampshire Historical Soci- 
 ety, and of the Sons of the Revolution. For many 
 years he was a member of the New Hampshire 
 Militia, Company K of Laconia. He was a mem- 
 ber with the rank of Colonel of the Staff of Gov- 
 ernor Goodell. Colonel Jewett is actively inter- 
 ested in legitimate sport with rod and gun, and is 
 Secretary of the Belknap County Fish and Game 
 I^eague, and a member of the IjCague of American 
 Sportsmen. He is a Thirty-second Degree Mason, 
 a member and Past Master of Mt. Lebanon Lodge 
 of Laconia, member and Past High Priest of Union 
 Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of Laconia; member 
 and I-'ast Master of Pythagorian Council, Royal 
 and Select Masters, of I^aconia; member and Past 
 Commander of Pilgrim Commander}', Knights Tem- 
 plar, of Laconia; Past Grand Master of the Grand 
 Council, Royal and Select Masters of New Flamp- 
 shire, and member of Aleppo Temple, Nobles of 
 the Mystic Shrine, of Boston. He is a member of 
 the Knights of Pythias ; of the Red Men ; LTnited 
 Order of Pilgrim Fathers ; United Order of Work- 
 men, and of the 1-ioyal Arcanum. He is a member 
 of the Franklin Pierce Statue Commission. He 
 married June 2°^ 1880, Annie L. Bray. They have 
 one child : Theo Stephen Jewett, born December 
 24, 1891. 
 
 JONES, Edwin Emery, Physician, Concord, was 
 born in Loudon, New Hampshire, January 3, 1870, 
 son of John and Martha L. (Wales) Jones. He 
 received his early education at the town schools 
 and I-'embroke Academy, graduating in the class 
 of 1SS8. He attended Dartmouth College in 1888 
 and 1S89, in business '89 to '9:, entered Dart- 
 mouth Medical College '91, and was graduated 
 from the Medical Department of that College in 
 the class of 1894; played on the foot-ball teams of 
 '9i-'92, and Captained the team of '93 when the 
 championship over Amherst and Williams was ob- 
 tained. He was House Physician of the Mary Hitch- 
 cock Memorial Hospital in i893-'94; began practice 
 in Norwich, Vermont, May, 1894. In i896-'97 he 
 was Chairman of the Board of School Directors of 
 Norwich, Vermont, and Trustee of the Public Library 
 of that town during the same year. He is a mem- 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 ber of the Sigma Chi and Alpha Kappa Kappa fra- 
 ternities, the Odd Fellows, and Junior Order, Order 
 United American Mechanics. In politics he is 
 a Republican. Mr. Jones joined the Methodist 
 church in Suncook, New Hampshire, 1890, and is 
 
 E. E. JONES. 
 
 now a member of First Methodist church. Concord, 
 New Hampshire, and Secretary and Treasurer of 
 Board of Trustees. Mr. Jones was married July 3, 
 1894, to Maude E. Norlhrup, and has one son: 
 Ralph Northrup Jones. 
 
 KIMBALL, Edward Payson, Banker, Ports- 
 mouth, was born in Warner, New Hampshire, 
 July 4, 1834, son of the Reverend Reuben and 
 Judith (Colby) Kimball. On the paternal side he 
 comes of English stock, being descended from 
 Richard Kimball, who came to this country from 
 Suffolk county in 1634, and settled in Watertown, 
 Massachusetts ; his descendants made their homes 
 in Ipswich and Amesbury, Massachusetts, and 
 Hopkinton and Warner, New Hampshire ; on the 
 maternal side (Colby) also English, who came to 
 this country about 1630. Mr. Kimball was edu- 
 cated in the common schools at Kittery, Maine, 
 and Hampton and Andover Academies. He was 
 engaged in the mercantile business in Kittery from 
 185s till 1857, when he removed to Portsmouth, 
 where he has since been engaged in practical bank- 
 
 ing. He was, first. Clerk in the Piscataqua Ex- 
 change, and Portsmouth Savings Banks. In 187 i 
 he was elected Cashier of the First National Bank, 
 and in 1882 was promoted to the Presidency of 
 the same bank, and also of the Piscataqua Savings 
 Bank. In addition, he has several business inter- 
 ests in the West. He has been a member of the 
 City Government ; of the School Board, and of the 
 State Legislature, in which he served in i885-'86. 
 He is a Trustee of the Piscataqua Lodge of Odd 
 Fellows ; of the Cottage Hospital ; of the Chase 
 Home for Children, and the Portsmouth Seaman's 
 
 E. p. KIMBALL. 
 
 Friend Society. He is President of the Howard 
 Benevolent Society, and of the Young Men's Chris- 
 tian Association. Since 1871 he has been a Dea- 
 con of the North Congregational Church of Ports- 
 mouth, and has held office as Clerk and Treasurer 
 of the church since 1867. In politics he is a 
 Republican. Mr. Kimball married September 13, 
 1864, Martha Jane Thompson, daughter of Colonel 
 Samuel and Anna True (Smith) Thompson, of 
 Wilmot, New Hampshire. They have had three 
 children : Elizabeth Colby, born January 29, 1866, 
 died March 7, 1880 ; Martha Smith, born Feb- 
 ruary 28, 1870, who graduated from Smith College 
 in class of '92 ; and Edward Thompson Kimball, 
 born September 29, 1873, a graduate of Amherst 
 College in the class of '96. 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 183 
 
 LOCKHART, Burton Wellesley, Pastor of 
 the Franklin-Street Congregational Church, Man- 
 chester, was born in Lockhartville, King's county. 
 Nova Scotia, January 24, 1855, son of Nathan A. 
 and Elizabeth Ann (Bezanson) Lockhart. His 
 ancestry on his father's side is Scotch-English, and 
 on his mother's, Scotch-Huguenot. He attended 
 the public schools of Nova Scotia, entered Arcadia 
 College at Wolfville, and was graduated in June, 
 1878. Four years later he was graduated from the 
 Theological Seminary at Newton Centre, Massa- 
 chusetts. His first charge was the Lockport (Nova 
 Scotia) Baptist Church, from July i, 1878, to Sep- 
 tember I, 1879. He was Pastor of the Second 
 Baptist Church, Suffield, Connecticut, from Sep- 
 tember I, 1S82, to October i, 1888, when he be- 
 
 B. W. LOCKHAR'J'. 
 
 came Pastor of the Third Congregational Church 
 at Chicopee, Massachusetts. In December, 1893, 
 he began his pastorate in Manchester. Mr. Lock- 
 hart married, December 24, 1883, Frances Mary 
 Upson. 
 
 LEACH, Edward Giles, City Solicitor, Frank- 
 lin, was born in Meredith, New Hampshire, Janu- 
 ary 28, 1849, son of Levi and Susan Catherine 
 (Sanborn) Leach. He attended the common 
 schools of Meredith and spent one term at the 
 New Hampshire Conference Seminary at Tilton, 
 
 and for two years studied at Kimball Union Acad- 
 emy, being graduated in 1867. He was graduated 
 from Dartmouth College in the class of 187 1. Mr. 
 Leach paid his own way through college, teaching 
 in winter and acting as clerk in the Crawford 
 House and Memphremagog House at Newport, 
 Vermont, in the summer. After his graduation he 
 studied law and was admitted to the Bar in Sep- 
 tember, 1874, since which time he has been in 
 practice at Franklin and Concord. He was in 
 partnership with the Hon. Daniel Barnard at 
 Franklin until 1879. Since then his office has 
 been in Concord, where he has been a member of 
 the firm of Leach & Stevens, his partner being 
 Henry W. Stevens. He was Solicitor of Merri- 
 mack county from 1880-1884, and has been City 
 Solicitor of Franklin since its organization as a 
 city. He served in the Legislature at the sessions 
 of 1893 and 1895, being Chairman of the House 
 Judiciary Committee in the latter year. Mr. Leach 
 has been President of the Franklin Board of Trade ; 
 of the Franklin Building and Loan Association ; of 
 the -Franklin Park Association ; of the Manufac- 
 
 E. G. LEACH. 
 
 turers and Merchants Mutual Insurance Company 
 since the organization of each. He has been 
 Trustee and Clerk of the Unitarian Church since 
 1880. He is a Director in the Light and Power 
 Company ; of the Franklin Falls Company ; and 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 the Franklin Electric Railroad. He drafted the 
 charter of the city of Franklin, and was active in 
 securing its passage by the Legislature and its 
 adoption by the vote of the city. He was a lead- 
 ing advocate of the city owning its water- works, 
 and of the system of control by a non-partisan 
 Board of Water Commissioners, under which the 
 plant has been managed ; and he has been one of 
 the Board of Commissioners since the system was 
 established. He was also active in advocating 
 the system of parks for the city under control of a 
 non-partisan Board without pay, and has been one 
 of the Park Commissioners since the Board was 
 established, fn politics Mr. Leach is a Republi- 
 can, and has been a member of the Republican 
 State Committee from Franklin since 1878. He 
 was one of the leaders in the movement which 
 changed the political control of the town in 1893. 
 He had been frequently nominated for office before 
 that year, but had been unable to overcome the 
 Democratic majority. Mr. Leach married, Decem- 
 ber 24, 1874, Agnes A. Robinson. He has two 
 sons : Eugene W. and Robert M. Leach, of the 
 Dartmouth classes of 1901 and T902 respectively. 
 
 were the late Ex-Governor B. F. Prescott of Ep- 
 ping, Ex-Lieutenant-Governor William H. Haile of 
 Springfield, Massachusetts, and Judge Caleb Blod- 
 gett of Boston, Massachusetts. He studied medi- 
 cine with the late Professor Albert Smith, M. D., 
 
 LEONARD, WiLLiAjr Smith, Physician, Hins- 
 dale, was born in Dublin, New Hampshire, Octo- 
 ber 13, 1832, son of Reverend Levi W. and Eliza- 
 beth Morison (Smith) Leonard. He belongs to 
 the " Bridgewater Branch " of the Leonard family 
 and is of the seventh generation in line of descent 
 from Solomon Leonard, who was born in the vicin- 
 ity of Monmouthshire, England, about 1610, came 
 to America about 1630, and settled in Duxbury, 
 Massachusetts, as early as 1633. His paternal 
 grandfather, Jacob Leonard, was a Revolutionary 
 soldier, whose son, Levi W. Leonard, D. D., was 
 thirtj'-five years the Pastor of the Unitarian Con- 
 gregational Church in Dublin, later removing to 
 Exeter, where he was the editor of the News Letter. 
 He was a man of extensive learning and infiuence, 
 was identified with the cause of common school 
 education in New Hampshire, and was the author 
 of some valuable text-books. To him rightfully 
 belongs the honor of establishing the first free 
 library in the LInited States, and this was at Dub- 
 lin in 1825. On the maternal side, Doctor William 
 S. Leonard is descended from the Hon. Samuel 
 Smith, founder of the village of Peterborough. He 
 was prepared for college at Phillips Exeter y^Lcad- 
 emy, and entered Dartmouth College in 1852, 
 being graduated in 1856. Among his classmates 
 
 W. S. LEONARD. 
 
 of Peterborough, attended three courses of lectures 
 at Dartmouth Medical College, and was graduated 
 in May, i860. For a short time in the summer 
 and autumn of that year he practiced in Amesbury, 
 Massachusetts, and in October settled in Hinsdale, 
 where he has been a practicing physician for thirty- 
 seven years. For ten years he was associated with 
 the late Doctor Frederic Boyden. Doctor Leon- 
 ard's practice has been large and lucrative, cover- 
 ing a wide territory. For several years between 
 i860 and 1870 he held the office of School Com- 
 mittee, and also served subsequently as a member 
 of the Board of Education for three years. He 
 has been identified with the Hinsdale Public Li- 
 brary ever since its foundation, as one of the Li- 
 brary Committee. lu 1S97 he was appointed by the 
 Commissioner of Pensions a member of the Board 
 of Examining Surgeons at Keene. He is a mem- 
 ber of the New Hampshire Medical Society, but 
 belongs to no secret society or organization what- 
 ever. He has never been active in politics. He 
 formerly voted with the Democratic party, but 
 parted from it on the silver issue in the Presi- 
 dential election of 1896. He married, April 30, 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 '85 
 
 1861, Martha Elmira Greenwood, daughter of Jack- 
 son Greenwood of Dublin. They have had seven 
 children: Annie, Walter, Cora, and Dolly, who 
 died in infancy and early childhood ; Frederick 
 Smith, a member of the firm of Barrett & Leon- 
 ard, printers, Springfield, Massachusetts ; Margaret 
 Elizabeth, a graduate of Radcliffe College, class of 
 '98, and ^^'illiam Jackson Leonard, an artist who 
 studied at Cowles Art School in Boston and for 
 two years abroad, a large portion of his time being 
 spent at Julien's Art School in Paris. In private 
 life Doctor Leonard is genial, companionable, and 
 full of mirth ; one who heartily enjoys a good joke, 
 and has the faculty of adapting himself to old and 
 young alike. He inherited from his father a taste 
 for literature, and has devoted more time to such 
 pursuits than the average physician in active prac- 
 tice. Among his published writings may be men- 
 tioned a paper read before the New Hampshire 
 Medical Society, entitled " The Confidence of the 
 Public in Non-professional Prescriptions," and an 
 address delivered at the Medical Commencement 
 at Dartmouth College in 1887, as Delegate from 
 the New Hampshire Medical Society, entitled 
 "Rambles in the Highways and By-ways of a Doc- 
 tor's Life," also two Fourth of July orations of a 
 humorous and patriotic character delivered at 
 Hinsdale. He has written much for the news- 
 papers, and has been for several years a regular 
 correspondent to the Springfield Republican. He 
 has the faculty of touching with playful satire upon 
 the follies and foibles of the time without inflicting 
 wounds or making enemies. 
 
 KNIGHT, William Franklin, Laconia, Mer- 
 chant, was born in Hanover, Grafton county. New 
 Hampshire, October 13, 1847, son of Edwin Perry 
 and Elizabeth W. T. (Vaughn) Knight. He comes 
 of patriotic ancestry, his great-grandfather, William 
 Knight, serving in the Revolutionary War. A 
 brother of William Knight received a Captain's 
 commission on the field of Bennington for gal- 
 lantry in action. Mr. Knight was educated in the 
 common schools of his native town, and at West 
 Randolph Academy. At the age of seventeen he 
 entered the employ of Parker Brothers, general 
 merchants, Laconia, and in 1867 was, practically, 
 in charge of the business. He eventually bought 
 out the concern, conducting the business for ten 
 years. In 1873 he became a member of the furni- 
 ture house of Mansur & Knight, which in 1887 
 
 became Knight & Robinson. Mr. Knight was 
 elected Town Clerk of Laconia in 1875, and 
 served two years. In 1883 he was elected County 
 Treasurer, and was re-elected in 1885. He served 
 in the State Legislature of 1889, and was elected 
 
 W. K. KNICHT. 
 
 to the State Senate from the Sixth District in 
 1894. Two years later he was made Quartermaster- 
 General on the staff of Governor Busiel. He is 
 a Thirty-second Degree Mason, has filled all the 
 chairs in Chapter and Council and Grand Council, 
 and is Grand High Priest of the last-named body. 
 In politics he is a Republican. In 1872, Mr. 
 Knight married Fannie E. Taylor. 
 
 MACKEY, Edward D., Berlin, is one of the 
 best known of the Catholic Clergy of New Hamp- 
 shire. He is a native of Ireland, where he was 
 educated in one of the leading colleges. He 
 came to this country when a young man, and 
 after his ordination became connected with St. 
 Joseph's Cathedral, Manchester, serving first as 
 Assistant and then as Rector. He took a whole- 
 souled interest in the welfare of the parish, de- 
 voting much of his attention to the development 
 of its schools, and being active Principal of the 
 girls' school. In Manchester he was Director of 
 the Holy Name Society and the Rosary Society. 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 Eather Mackey was the first Chaplain of the An- 
 cient Order of Hibernians in Manchester. He had 
 long been identified with the career of Home Rule 
 for Ireland ; and during his residence in Manches- 
 ter he was influential in bringing about the visit to 
 
 E. D. MAC KEY. 
 
 the city of the Hon. William O'Brien and the Hon. 
 T. D. Sullivan, an event which led to one of the 
 greatest demonstrations, and the raising of a sub- 
 scription of three thousand dollars to aid the cause 
 they represented. Father Mackey in his clerical 
 labors at St. Joseph's proved himself an indefatiga- 
 ble worker, and one possessed of the true apos- 
 tolic spirit. In December, 1893, he was assigned 
 to Berlin, and in that rapidly growing city his 
 labors have again been crowned with deserved 
 success. Here he has erected a magnificent brick 
 church of Gothic design, a commodious parochial 
 residence, the whole costing about thirty-five 
 thousand dollars, the greater part of which, 
 through his untiring efforts, has already been 
 cleared of debt. The church property in his 
 parish is the most beautiful and most valuable in 
 northern New Hampshire. During his adminis- 
 tration of the parish, numerous converts have been 
 received into the church. He takes a warm 
 interest in the upbuilding of the new city, and in 
 everything tending to the material and social well- 
 being of its residents. 
 
 MARVIN, William Edward, Lawyer, Ports- 
 mouth, was born in that town, January i, 1872, 
 son of William and Eliza Salter (Anderson) Mar- 
 vin. He attended the private and public schools 
 in Portsmouth, went to Harvard University, and 
 was graduated from its Law School in 1893 with 
 degree of LL. B. He was admitted to the Bar of 
 New Hampshire at the July term of that year. 
 From the beginning his practice has been asso- 
 ciated with Frink & Batchelder, being taken into 
 partnership in the spring of 1894, when the firm 
 became Frink, Batchelder & Marvin. In Septem- 
 ber of that year, upon the death of Charles E. 
 Batchelder, Mr. Marvin formed a partnership with 
 the Hon. J. S. H. Frink, under the firm name of 
 Frink & Marvin, which still continues. He was 
 admitted to practice in United States Courts in 
 September, 1896. Mr. Marvin was Chairman of 
 the Board of Selectmen of Newcastle for three 
 years, i894-'97, Corporation Counsel for the town, 
 and he is a member of the Southern New Hamp- 
 shire Bar Association ; Powwow Club, Harvard 
 University Law School ; Warwick Club of Ports- 
 mouth, and a life member of Harvard Law School 
 
 W. E. MARVIN. 
 
 Association. He is a Communicant of St. John's 
 Episcopal Church, Portsmouth. He was married, 
 June 24, 1896, to Susan Roby Bent of Wayland, 
 Massachusetts. He has one son : William Bent 
 Marvin. 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 187 
 
 MEAD, Edwin Doak, Editor of the New Eng- 
 land Magazine, Boston, was born in Chesterfield, 
 Cheshire count)'. New Hampshire, September 29, 
 1849, son of Bradley and Sarah (Stone) Mead. He 
 was a farmer's boy, with a keen liking for books 
 and a taste for study, which stood him in good 
 stead not only as a pupil in the country schools, 
 but also when, upon quitting school, he became a 
 clerk in the store of his brother-in-law in Chester- 
 field. There his duties did not occupy all his 
 time, and his leisure was devoted to reading and 
 study. Moreover, he soon took to writing, one 
 result being a little magazine written out each 
 month, made up of original essays and tales. 
 Among his relatives in the neighboring town of 
 Brattleborough, Vermont, were Larkin G. Mead, 
 who became a noted sculptor, William Mead, sub- 
 sequently one of the well known architects, 
 McKim, Mead & White, and Eleanor Mead, who 
 married William Dean Howells. Edwin Mead and 
 the novelist first met soon after the return of the 
 latter from his consulship in Venice. They became 
 warm friends, a fact which had much to do with 
 shaping the subsequent life-work of Mr. Mead, for 
 Mr. Howells secured for him a place in the Boston 
 counting room of Ticknor &: Fields, where he 
 remained for nine years, and not only gained a 
 practical knowledge of business, but made the 
 acquaintance of many of the literary men of Bos- 
 ton. In 1875 Mr. Mead went abroad to prepare 
 himself for the ministry of the Episcopal Church ; 
 but his theological views undergoing a change 
 through fuller acquaintance with New England 
 Transcendentalism and English Broad Church teach- 
 ings, he withdrew from the Church in 1876. Much 
 of the time of the five years he spent in Europe 
 was devoted to study at O.xford, Cambridge, and 
 Leipzig, and to work in the British Museum. 
 During this time he contributed a number of arti- 
 cles to American magazines on the English Broad 
 Churchmen, and he wrote much on other topics. 
 After his return to this country, he edited, in 1881, 
 " Faith and Freedom," a collection of sermons by 
 Stopford Brooke in England, and in the same year 
 published his first book, " The Philosophy of Car- 
 lyle," followed three years later by " Martin 
 Luther: a Study of Reformation." Mr. Mead also 
 lectured in the East and West on literary, histori- 
 cal, philosophical, and political subjects. He be- 
 came one of the most active members of the Free 
 Religious Association, and took an active part in 
 the forwarding of popular educational movements. 
 
 Among other things he developed the famous Old 
 South Work, lectures and studies in history and 
 politics for young people, in the Old South Meeting- 
 house, a work founded and maintained by the late 
 Mrs. Hemenway, and he has prepared the "Old 
 
 E. D. MEAD. 
 
 South Leaflets" published in connection with the 
 work, chiefly reproductions of original papers, with 
 historical and biographical notes of much value. 
 These leaflets have had a wide circulation through- 
 out the country, and attracted much favorable 
 comment from educators, writers, and students. 
 Mr. Mead joined the New England Magazine in 
 1889 as its Associate Editor, with Rev. Edward 
 Everett Hale, who had undertaken its conduct with 
 a view to making it a popular vehicle for spreading a 
 knowledge of New England history. Upon Dr. 
 Hale's retirement at the end of the year, Mr. Mead 
 became Chief Editor, a post he has held ever 
 since. In his service with this magazine he has 
 broadened his reputation and shown high capacity 
 for editorial work, while he has found time in 
 addition for contributions to other periodicals. He 
 was one of the founders of the Massachusetts 
 Society for Promoting Good Citizenship, and has 
 served for several years as its President. He was 
 one of the founders of the Twentieth Century 
 Club of Boston, and is President of its Council. 
 He has been active in movements for municipal 
 
1 88 
 
 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 reform, has borne a part in national as well as 
 local conferences, and was the first Secretary of 
 the Boston Municipal League. Besides his con- 
 tributions to magazines, Mr. Mead's later publica- 
 tions include ''The Roman Catholic Church and 
 the Public Schools,'' 1S89; "The Constitution of 
 the United States with Historical and Bibliograph- 
 ical Notes and Outlines for Study," and " Outline 
 Studies of Holland," published by the National 
 Bureau of Unity Clubs. He is a constant speaker 
 upon the platform. His lectures have dealt with a 
 wide range of subjects including " Puritanism," 
 "The American Poets," "The English Common- 
 wealth," "Dante,' " fmmanuel Kant," " Carlyle 
 and Emerson," "The Study of History,'' and 
 " Representative Government." 
 
 NASH, John B., Lawyer, Center Conway, was 
 born in Windham, Maine, May 17, 1848, son of 
 Barzillia and Lavinia (Hicks) Nash. He attended 
 the public schools of his native town and later took 
 a course at the Academy in Gorham, Maine. He 
 then read law with Joel Eastman, and was admitted 
 
 He is one of the most eloquent political speakers 
 in the state. He has long been a member of the 
 Board of Education and has been most earnest in 
 advancing the educational interests of his town. In 
 politics he is a Democrat, and has been twice a 
 candidate for Congress. He was County Solicitor 
 for four years and a member of the Constitutional 
 Convention in 1889. Member of the New Hamp- 
 shire Legislature in 1891 and '93. 
 
 MURKLAND, Charles Sumnkk, President of 
 the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the 
 Mechanic Arts, Durham, was born in Lowell, ATas- 
 sachusetts. May 20, 1S56, son of John and Jane 
 (Lambert) Murkland. He received his early edu- 
 cation in the public schools of his native city, grad- 
 uating from the High School in 1872. From this 
 
 C. S. MURKI.AND. 
 
 time until 1877, he worked as an engraver in the 
 Hamilton Print Works. He then entered Middle- 
 bury College, and received the degree of A. B. in 
 i8Si,andof A. M. in 1884. He was graduated 
 
 .^ _ . . .. . from the Harvard Divinity School in 1883, with 
 
 JOHN I). NASH. the degree of B. D., and took a post-graduate course 
 
 at Andover Seminary the following year. He was 
 to the Bar at Concord in August, 1878, being one ordained for the ministry at the Third Congrega- 
 of the first applicants coming under the rules for tional church, Chicopee, Massachusetts, in June, 
 examination and admission of students. Since his 1S84, and two years later, in June, 1886, was in- 
 admission, he has practiced in Center Conway, be- stalled as Pastor of the Franklin Street church of 
 ing active in all the courts of the county and state. Manchester, New Hampshire, where he remained 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 189 
 
 until called to the Presidency of the New Hamp- 
 shire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic 
 Arts. He was inaugurated in July, 1893. Mr. Murk- 
 land received the degree of Ph. L)., from Dartmouth 
 College in 1893. On July 30, 1SS4, he was mar- 
 ried to Helen Mary Tupper. They have one 
 daughter- Marie Murkland, born December 16, 
 1887. 
 
 PEIRCE, George Walton, Physician, Winches- 
 ter, was born in that town, April 24, 1S33, son of 
 Hosea and Verlina (Putnam) Peirce. His father 
 
 G. W. PEIRCE. 
 
 was a physician and practiced in Winchester from 
 1828 until his death at the age of ninety-two. The 
 subject of this sketch was educated in the schools 
 of his native town, in the Academies at Townshend, 
 Vermont, and Sherburn Falls, Massachusetts, and 
 at the New England Institute for young men at 
 New York city. ' He was graduated from I^erkshire 
 Medical College in 1854, and in the same year 
 began practice in Winchester, where he has since 
 remained. From April 18, 1864, until the close of 
 the Civil War, he was Surgeon of the First New 
 Hampshire Cavalry, and Surgeon-General on the 
 staff of Governor Moody Currier. He is President 
 of the town Board of Health, President of the 
 Board of Trustees of the Public Library, President 
 of the Board of Education and of the Ashuelot 
 
 Valley Electric Light, Heat, and Power Company. 
 He was a member of the state Legislature in 1875, 
 and of the Senate in 1891. While in the latter 
 body he was Chairman of the Committee on Rail- 
 roads. He is a Trustee of the New Hampshire 
 A.sylum for the Insane, and Past Commander of 
 Post No. 19, Grand Army of the Republic, Depart- 
 ment of New Hampshire. Doctor Peirce is a Repub- 
 lican, and has been active in politics since the cast- 
 ing of his first ballot for John C. Fremont. He 
 married Maria C, daughter of William Follett of 
 Winchester. They have four children : Alexander 
 F., Susan Putnam, now Mrs. Walter O. Stebbins of 
 Hinsdale, Abbie E., now Mrs. Edward C. Thomp- 
 son of Winchester, and Philip W. Peirce. 
 
 ORDWAY, Nehemiah George, Ex-Governor of 
 Dakota, Warner, was born in that town, November 
 28, 1828, son of Nehemiah and Mary (Flanders) 
 Ordway. His father was a farmer, and his mother 
 the daughter of Isaiah Flanders, who owned a 
 large farm, included in which was much of the 
 territory now occupied by Warner village. It was 
 upon this farm that Mr. Ordway passed many of 
 his early years, soon becoming the active manager 
 of the property. He still owns a large share of 
 the homestead. Before he had attained his major- 
 ity, Mr. Ordway had sought other outlets for his 
 energy, and had engaged in mercantile business in 
 Warner, wliere he rebuilt stores in Union Block. 
 He remained in business in Warner for several 
 years, and took an active part in the affairs of the 
 town. In 1855 and '56 served as Assistant Clerk and 
 Sergeant at-Arms of the New Hampshire Legisla- 
 ture. At the close of these sessions was appointed 
 by Governor William Haile, Sheriff of Merrimack 
 county for the term of five years, and thereupon he 
 removed to Concord, where he also ser\'ed as City 
 Marshal and Collector of Taxes. In early man- 
 hood, Mr. Ordway was a Democrat, but when the 
 Republican party was organized, he became identi- 
 fied with it, and was for many years associated 
 with William E. Chandler and the late Edward H. 
 Rollins in the management of the party affairs, 
 serving as Chairman of the Republican State Com- 
 mittee. In the Lincoln campaign of i860, as 
 Chairman of the Republican State Committee and 
 Chief Marshal, he took ten thousand men from 
 this state to participate in the great " Wide Awake " 
 campaign demonstration in Boston. When the 
 war broke out, Mr. Ordway was Sheriff of Merri- 
 mack county, but his services were called for by 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 the Governor, who commissioned him Colonel, and 
 detailed him to make arrangements for forwarding 
 the first regiments raised in the state. In 1861, 
 President Lincoln appointed him General Agent of 
 the Post-office Department and Superintendent of 
 Mail Transportation for the Six New England 
 States, which duties he performed until December, 
 1862, when he resigned to accept the office of 
 Sergeant-at-Arnis and Paymaster of the National 
 House of Representatives at Washington. He 
 was elected to this important position at the open- 
 ing of the Thirty-eighth Congress, and was five 
 times re-elected, serving for twelve years, and 
 during this historic period becoming intimately 
 
 N. G. ORDWAV. 
 
 acquainted with no less than twelve hundred Sena- 
 tors and Representatives. At the same time Mr. 
 Ordway became interested in the affairs of the Dis- 
 trict of Columbia and business matters of the Dis- 
 trict. He aided in organizing and became one of 
 the principal stockholders in the Washington Mar- 
 ket Company, of which he was for eight years 
 President, and still spends a large share of each 
 year in the capital city. In the spring of 1875, ^^ 
 was elected Representative to the State Legislature 
 from Warner, being the first Republican sent from 
 that town. He was again elected in 1876 and 
 1877, was a Delegate to the Constitutional Con- 
 vention of 187G, and was elected a State Senator 
 in 1879. President Hayes appointed him Gov- 
 
 ernor of the Territory of Dakota in May, 1880, and 
 this office he held for four busy years, being 
 actively engaged not only in conducting the official 
 affairs of the territorial government, but in superin- 
 tending the erection of many public buildings, 
 including the State House at Bismarck and peni- 
 tentiaries, asylums, schools, and universities at dif- 
 ferent places. He established the First National 
 Bank at Pierre, and afterwards the Capital 
 National Bank at Bismarck. His early experience 
 in the organization and management of the Kear- 
 sarge National and Savings Banks in Warner stood 
 him in good stead, and he was the first President 
 of each of these new banks in the West. So ener- 
 getic was he while in Dakota that his health was 
 considerably impaired by his labors, and upon his 
 return to his old home, he was obliged in a 
 measure to curtail his activities. Nevertheless, he 
 is still a pretty well preserved busy man, for 
 besides his large interests in New Hampshire and 
 his interests in Washington, he has important busi- 
 ness interests in both the Dakotas, and owns a 
 residence in Bismarck as well as one in Washing- 
 ton. Governor Ordway has always been interested 
 in agriculture, and has developed his estate of four 
 or five hundred acres, which stretches for nearly 
 two miles along the Warner river, and includes the 
 " River Bow Park," one of the oldest fair grounds 
 in New England. Ex-Governor Ordway has been 
 an enthusiastic breeder of fine horses, has taken a 
 very important part in forwarding the interests of 
 agricultural societies, for whose annual fairs he 
 furnishes accommodations at his "River Bow 
 Park," and organized the Merrimack County 
 Grange Fair, which is held on the same grounds. 
 He is a Mason of the Thirty-second Degree and 
 Knights Templar, and a member of Warner and 
 Merrimack County Pomona Granges. In religion 
 he formerly was affiliated with the Universaliets, 
 but while a resident of Washington in war times 
 became a strong adherent of the Rev. Dr. Byron 
 Sunderland of the First Presbyterian Church, with 
 which he has since retained his connection, and 
 has served as President of the Congregation since 
 Dr. Talmage became Associate Pastor. Governor 
 Ordway was married, October 9, 1848, to Nancy 
 Ann, daughter of Daniel Bean, a prominent resi- 
 dent of Warner, who was the owner of large lumber 
 interests, and who built and operated the mills 
 near the present Waterloo Railroad station, other- 
 wise known as Bean's Mills. The Governor had 
 three children : Mabel, wife of Colonel E. L. Whit- 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 191 
 
 ford, formerly United States Pension Agent for this 
 district ; Colonel George L. Ordway (deceased), who 
 married a niece of the late Vice-President Colfax, 
 and was an attorney at Warner; and Florence (de- 
 ceased), wife of Frank G. Wilkins, an attorney of 
 Washington, District of Columbia. Governor Ord- 
 way was admitted to the Ear in the Supreme Court 
 of what now comprises the new states of North and 
 South Dakota, and gave his personal attention to 
 the construction and financial management of all the 
 Public Buildings in both these new and prosperous 
 states, as will be seen by his business cards printed 
 herewith. 
 
 OFFICIAL SERVICE. 
 
 1855. Clerk New Hampshire Legislature. 
 
 1856 to '60.— High Sheriff and Marshal. 
 
 1S60 to '62. — U. S. Inspector and Colonel. 
 
 1862. Elected Sergeant-at-Arnis and Paymaster, 38th Con- 
 gress ; re-elected 39th, 40th, -(ist, 42d, and 43d Con- 
 gresses. 
 
 1S75 to '80. — Elected N. H. House, Constitutional Convention and 
 State Senate. 
 
 iSSo. Appointed Governor of Dakota in May, iSSo, served 
 
 until July, 1S84. Recommended and approved 
 acts for locating and erecting Insane Hospitals at 
 Yankton and Jamestown; Penitentiaries at Sioux 
 Falls and Bismarck ; Universities at Vermilion 
 and Grand Forks; Normal Schools at Spearhsh 
 and Madison ; Deaf Mute Schools at Sioux Falls ; 
 Agricultural Colleges at Brookings and Fargo ; 
 Reformatory Institution at Plankington, and Cap- 
 itol Buildings at Bismarck. 
 
 ROLLINS, Montgomery, Banker, Boston, was 
 born in Concord, New Hampshire, August 25, 
 1867, son of Edward H. and Ellen Elizabeth 
 (West) Rollins. He comes of a family which is 
 one of the oldest and most distinguished in the 
 state, the name Rollins being prominent in the 
 records of almost every town in southeastern New 
 Hampshire. Most if not all of the bearers of the 
 name are descendants of James Rollins (or Raw- 
 lins, as the name is sometimes spelled), one of the 
 pioneers of Ipswich, Massachusetts, who came to 
 America in 1632 and settled at "Bloody Point" in 
 old Dover, a dozen years later, where he died about 
 1690. In the early Indian-French wars and the great 
 Revolutionary contest, his descendants bore their 
 full share. Ichabod, the eldest son of James Rol- 
 lins, an ancestor of Edward H., was murdered by 
 Indians while on the way from Dover to Oyster 
 River (now Durham), in 1707. The second son of 
 James, Thomas, afterwards a resident of Kx;eter, 
 was a member of the " dissolved assembly " of 
 1683, which took up arms under Edward Gove and 
 attempted to begin an insurrection against the royal 
 
 Governor, Cranfield. Thomas Rollins was one of 
 those subsequently tried for treason and sentenced 
 to death, but was eventually pardoned. In the 
 Revolutionary Army a score and a half of the 
 descendants of James Rollins were engaged in 
 active service. Jeremiah Rollins, the only son of 
 Ichabod, was one of the petitioners for the incor- 
 poration of Somersworth as a separate parish. He 
 died a few years before the Revolution, and his son, 
 Ichabod, became an active champion of the peo- 
 ple's cause, was a member of the Convention at 
 Exeter in 1775, served on the committee to prepare 
 ways and means for furnishing troops, and on the 
 committee of supplies ; was a member of the Con- 
 
 MONTGOMERY ROLLINS. 
 
 vention which resolved itself into an independent 
 state government in 1776, and sat in the Legisla- 
 ture in, October following. From 1776 to 1784 he 
 was Judge of Probate, being the first to hold this 
 office under the new government. Subsequently he 
 was a member of the Executive Council. He died 
 in 1800. From him the town of Rollinsford, which 
 was made from a portion of Somersworth, received 
 its name. John, the eldest of his four sons, was 
 grandfather of Daniel G. Rollins, Judge of Probate 
 for the County of Strafford, from 1857 to 1866. 
 Edward Ashton Rollins, son of Daniel, was Speaker 
 of the New Hampshire House of Representatives 
 in 1861 and 1862, Commissioner of Internal Reve- 
 
irji 
 
 MEN OF PR0(;RESS. 
 
 nue under President Johnson. James Rollins, third 
 son of Ichabod 2d, and grandfather of Edward H., 
 settled upon the farm in Rollinsford, which has 
 since remained the family homestead. Daniel Rol- 
 lins, his eighth child, married Mary, eldest daughter 
 of Ebenezer Plumer, and was the father of Edward 
 H. Rollins, who was the father of the subject 
 of this sketch. Montgomery Rollins attended the 
 public schools of Concord, the district school in 
 Rollinsford, private schools in Washington, District 
 of Columbia, and studied for three years under 
 Moses Woolson at Concord, fitting for the Institute 
 of Technology, Boston, where he subsequently took 
 a three years' course, completing it in 1888. His 
 first business venture was as a clerk in the banking 
 house of E. H. Rollins & Son of Concord, and after 
 six months he went West, entering the Denver office 
 of the same firm. He returned East to take part 
 in the settlement of his father's estate, and about 
 the first of January, 1890, went to Boston, taking 
 the management of the Boston branch of the house 
 of E. H. Rollins & Sons, and becoming at that 
 time a Director and Secretary, offices he still holds. 
 In 1892 the Boston office became the main office of 
 the banking house, and so remains. Mr. Rollins is 
 the author of a number of publications of great 
 interest to the banking fraternity. Among them is 
 the "Rollins Tables of Bond Values," now in its 
 eighth edition, and the " Montgomery Cipher Code," 
 now in its fourth edition, both of which have met 
 a very hearty reception and have proved of great 
 value. Mr. Rollins is Secretary of the Chestnut 
 Hill Golf Club, and a member of its Executive 
 Committee. He is a member of the Chestnut Hill 
 Club and the Technology Club. He was married 
 October 28, 1891, to Grace U'ebster Seavey, daugh- 
 ter of the Hon. J, Frank Seavey of Dover. They 
 have one daughter ■ Ellen West Rollins. 
 
 STREETER, Frank Shkrwin, Lawyer, Con- 
 cord, was born in Charlestown, Vermont, August 5, 
 1853, son of Daniel and Julia W. Streeter. He 
 received his education in the public schools in St. 
 Johnsbury, Vermont, and at the Academy in the 
 same place. He entered Dartmouth College as a 
 Sophomore, being graduated in 1S74. After hold- 
 ing for a time the position of Principal of the 
 Ottumwa (Iowa) High School, he read law with 
 A. P. Carpenter of Bath, and was admitted to the Bar 
 in March, 1877. He practiced six months at Orford, 
 then removing to Concord and forming a partner- 
 ship with J. H. Albin, which continued one year. 
 
 He next entered into partnership with W. M. Chase, 
 and when the latter was appointed to the Supreme 
 Bench, the firm became Streeter, Walker & Chase. 
 Mr. Streeter is a legal specialist, dealing in cases 
 involving large corporate interests, and was the 
 
 FRANK S. STREETER. 
 
 General Counsel of the Concord l\; Montreal Rail- 
 road, prior to its lease to the Boston & Maine 
 Railroad, and is now actively engaged as Counsel 
 for that corporation. He is a Trustee of Dart- 
 mouth College. In 1SS5 he represented the 
 Fourth Ward of Concord in the Legislature, and 
 presided at the Republican State Convention in 
 1892. Mr, Streeter was married November 14, 
 1877, to Lillian, daughter of A. P- Carpenter, then of 
 Bath, subsequently Chief Justice of the Supreme 
 Court. They have two children. 
 
 SULLOWAY, CvRUs Adams, Member of Con- 
 gress, Manchester, was born in Grafton, New 
 Hampshire, June 8, 1839. He received a common 
 school and academic education, and studied law 
 with the late Austin F. Pike, at Franklin, being 
 admitted to the Bar in 1863. In January of the 
 following year he began the practice of law in 
 Manchester, which has since been his home. Mr. 
 Sulloway has long been active in politics. He was 
 a member of the New Hampshire House of Repre- 
 sentatives in i872-'73, and from 1887 to 1893, 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 193 
 
 inclusive. He was elected as a Republican to the 
 Fifty-fourth Congress, and was re-elected to the 
 Fifty-fifth, receiving twenty-five thousand, six hun- 
 dred and sixty-one votes, against thirteen thousand, 
 nine hundred and twenty-eight cast for John li. 
 Nash, Democrat ; six hundred and fourteen for 
 Henry E. Brawn, Prohibitionist; three hundred 
 and twenty-six for Benjamin T. Whitehouse, 
 Socialist Labor ; one hundred and twenty-one for 
 Charles W. Coolidge, National Democrat ; and one 
 
 C. A. SULLOWAY. 
 
 hundred and eleven for Josiah A, Whittier, Peo- 
 ple's Party. ISfr. Sulloway was one of the strong- 
 est advocates in Congress of War with Spain, for 
 the liberation of Cuba. 
 
 SARGENT, Frank Henrv, Physician, Pitts- 
 field, was born in that town October 31, i86i, son 
 of Charles H. and Almira (Ring) Sargent. The 
 first ancestor of his family in this country was \A'il- 
 liam Sargent, who emigrated to this country from 
 England in 1638. Benjamin Sargent, great-great- 
 grandson of William, wlio served as a corporal in 
 the Revolutionary War under Washington, was 
 born March 27, 1760, and was ordained as a Bap- 
 tist minister of Bow, New Hampshire, October 11, 
 1797, removed to Pittsfield, and settled over the 
 Congregational Church, March lo, 1801. He 
 united this church with the Baptist Society, and 
 
 continued to preach for the two until March 15, 
 18 18, when he was seized by apoplexy while in the 
 pulpit, and died from the effects of the attack. He 
 left two sons and one daughter, one son becoming 
 a well-known clergyman. The daughter married 
 Frederick Sanborn, and her son, Major-General 
 John B. Sanborn, commanded all of the United 
 States forces west of the Mississippi liiver, during 
 the great Rebellion. Walter Sanborn, his grand- 
 son, a cousin of the subject of this sketch, is the 
 United States Judge whose recent decision in the 
 l-'acific Railroad cases saved the Government seve- 
 ral million dollars. Moses J>. Sargent, the other 
 son of the Reverend Benjamin Sargent, had two 
 children. His son, Charles H. Sargent, born Sep- 
 tember 15, 1825, had six children, the youngest of 
 
 K. H. SARGI':Nr. 
 
 whom is the subject of this sketch. When Doctor 
 Sargent was but ten years of age his father died, 
 and he at once took charge of the farm, under the 
 guidance of his mother. He was educated in the 
 common schools, and at Pittsfield Academy. His 
 professional studies were begun in the medical 
 department at Bowdoin, and continued at Dart- 
 mouth, from which he was graduated in the class 
 of 1889. He then took a post-graduate course in 
 New York city, after which he returned to Pitts- 
 field, where he established a practice which is 
 large and steadily increasing. He is known as a 
 
194 
 
 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 man of great independence in thought and action, 
 yet has hosts of friends and few enemies. He 
 has occupied all the chairs in Suncook Lodge, 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he is 
 a very active member. He still retains his interest 
 in farming, has added many acres to the old home- 
 stead, and has brought it up to the condition in 
 which it is one of the most productive farms in the 
 Suncook Valley. In 1S94 he bought the Hill prop- 
 erty at the corner of Carroll and Depot streets, and 
 at once remodeled tiae large building, and in the 
 following year he built another business block upon 
 adjoining land, thus making him one of the largest 
 real est.nte owners in the town. Doctor Sargent 
 has great energy and executive ability, and has, 
 unaided, attained marked success at the age of 
 thirty-six, through continuous application. He has 
 for years looked carefully after the needs of his 
 mother, in her declining years. In politics Doc- 
 tor Sargent is an Independent. He was married 
 July 25, 1897, to Nellie, daughter of S. J., and Mar- 
 garet Denison Winslow of Pittsfield. 
 
 SMITH, William Benjamin Tyng, Charles- 
 town, was born in Claremont, New Hampshire, 
 March 9, 1S42, the third son of the late Reverend 
 Henry Sumner and Mary (Hilliard) Smith. Mr. 
 Smith is a scholar and clergyman by heredity, as 
 well as by education and preference, coming from 
 New England stock, which in an unbroken line for 
 more than a century consecrated its members to 
 the service of the church. His father, the Rever- 
 end Henry Sumner Smith, after a collegiate and 
 divinity course at Kenyon College, Gambler, Ohio, 
 was made Deacon by Bishop Mcllvaine in that 
 town, and was ordained Priest by the same Bishop 
 in Trinity church, Cleveland. After laying the 
 foundation of what have since become flourishing 
 parishes in that Diocese, he served a diligent and 
 faithful Rectorship over the old historic Union 
 church at West Claremont, New Hampshire. On 
 the maternal side Mr. Smith is of Scotch descent. 
 His mother's father was the Reverend Timothy 
 Hilliard, of Gorham, Maine. His great-grand- 
 father, the Reverend Timothy Hilliard, born in 
 Kensington, New Hampshire, in 1746, was a grad- 
 uate of Harvard College in 1764, and was ordained 
 Pastor of the Congregational church at Barnstable, 
 in 1771; his grandfather, the Reverend Timothy 
 Hilliard, Jr., born in 1776, was also a Harvard man 
 in the class of 1793. He was ordered Deacon 
 in Trinity church, Boston, by Bishop Bass, and 
 
 ordained Priest by Bishop Jarvis of Connecticut, 
 June 6, 1805. That the Hilliard family in this 
 country dates from the earliest colonial period and 
 was among the first to settle in Massachusetts, is 
 evidenced by the name Hilliard having been be- 
 stowed upon one of the principal streets of the old 
 college town of Cambridge. Mr. Smith fitted for 
 college at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, and 
 was graduated from Dartmouth in the class of 
 1866. He studied Divinity at the General Theo- 
 logical Seminary of New York city, completing the 
 three years' course in 1S71. While yet a student 
 at the seminary, he was ordained Deacon, Decem- 
 ber 19, 1869, by the late Bishop Chase, First 
 Bishop of New Hampshire, and after completing 
 his course of study in Divinity he was ordained 
 Priest by Horatio Potter, Bishop of the Diocese of 
 New York. His early training for active life began 
 by teaching in the public schools of Claremont. 
 He was afterwards Principal of the High School of 
 Fort Wayne, Indiana, and a Civil Engineer on the 
 Fort Wayne & Grand Rapids Railroad. In the 
 summer of 1871 he went to Europe, anticipating 
 
 W. B. T. SMITH. 
 
 much enjoyment in making a tour of the Old 
 World, but was called home early in the following 
 year by his father's fatal illness. He succeeded 
 his father as Rector of Union church. West Clare- 
 mont, assuming the duties June 23, 1872. He 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 195 
 
 established the Mission and erected the Church 
 of St. John the Baptist at Wolfboro Junction, New 
 Hampshire, in 1876. Two years later he accom- 
 plished a similar purpose in advancing the work of 
 a Mission already established at Woodsville, New 
 Hampshire, and was instrumental in building St. 
 Luke's church in that town. He accepted the 
 Rectorship of St. James's church, Keene, in Sep- 
 tember, 1884, and in i886 became Rector of Trin- 
 ity church in Tilton. His exceptionally happy 
 marriage to Nellie S. Baker, only surviving daughter 
 of the late Jonathan and Harriet M. (VVillard) 
 Baker of Charlestown, occurred June 27, r88S, in 
 St. Luke's church, Charlestown, the Right Rever- 
 end W. \V. Niles, Bishop of New Hampshire, offi- 
 ciating. Soon after this event Mr. Smith was in- 
 vited to become Rector of St. Luke's, and after 
 serving acceptably for four years resigned the 
 charge. While a portion of each year is passed in 
 travel and their summers are spent in their beauti- 
 ful camp in the Adirondacks, Mr. and Mrs. Smith 
 continue to make Charlestown their permanent 
 home. The abilities of Mr. Smith as a leader and 
 organizer, as well as in executive directions, aside 
 from his earnestness and eloquence as a preacher, 
 have long and repeatedly been recognized by the 
 Bishop and clergy of the Diocese of New Hamp- 
 shire in his elections to responsible offices and 
 committees ; nor are his talents confined to the 
 ministry, but are equally apparent along educa- 
 tional, official and financial lines. He has accom- 
 plished efficient work as Superintendent of Schools 
 in Claremont ; as Deputy to the General Conven- 
 tion of the Protestant Episcopal church for several 
 terms of three years each, as well as in his position 
 during a period of great financial depression as a 
 Director of the Connecticut River National Bank, 
 and as a Director of the Claremont National Bank 
 in Claremont. Mr. Smith is a man of culture and 
 genial temperament and makes hosts of friends. 
 He is quick in his perceptions, earnest and enthu- 
 siastic in all his undertakings, a lover of art and 
 music, and a brilliant conversationalist. 
 
 SANBORN, George Freeman, Druggist, Mere- 
 dith, was born in that place August 17, 1857, son 
 of George and Sophronia D. (Stockbridge) San- 
 born. He received his education in the public 
 schools of his native town, at the New Hampton 
 Literary Institution, and at Tilton Seminary. In 
 1880 he established the Meredith News, and pub- 
 
 lished it for twelve years. For the past fourteen 
 years he has been in the drug business. Mr. San- 
 born was a member of the Legislature in 1885. 
 He is a member of the Amoskeag Veterans of 
 Manchester, New Hampshire, of which he is yVssis- 
 
 GEO. F. SANBORN. 
 
 tant Surgeon ; a member of Manchester Lodge, 
 Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, and of the 
 Royal Arcanum. In politics he is a Democrat. 
 He married December 10, 1SS4, Charlotte J. 
 French, They have one son : Royden \V. Sanborn. 
 
 TUCKER, Willi AJi Jewett, President of Dart- 
 mouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, was born 
 in Griswold, Connecticut, July 13, 1839, son of 
 Henry and Sarah (Lester) Tucker, the seventh in 
 descent from Robert Tucker, who came over in 
 1635 ^"'^ settled at Weymouth, Massachusetts. 
 The family is descended from John Tucker, 1066. 
 He obtained his early education at the Academy of 
 Plymouth, and Kimball Union Academy of Meri- 
 den. He became a student at Dartmouth, and 
 was graduated in the class of 1861. For two years 
 after his graduation he taught at Columbus, Ohio, 
 and then took up his theological studies at Ando- 
 ver Seminary, from which he was graduated in 
 1866. He was ordained and installed Pastor of 
 the Franklin-Street Congregational Church of Man- 
 chester in 1867, a pastorate he held until 1875, 
 
196 
 
 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 when he was called to the Madison Square Pres- 
 byterian Church in New York city. There he 
 remained until 1S80, when he was appointed Bar- 
 tlett Professor of Homiletics in the Andover 
 Theological Seminary, where he remained for thir- 
 
 Alice Lester and iMari;aret Tucker. He was again 
 married, June 23, 1SS7, to Charlotte B. Cheever. 
 By his second marriage he has one child : Eliza- 
 beth Washburn Tucker. 
 
 W. J. TUCKER. 
 
 teen years, being elected President of Dartmouth 
 College in 1893. Dr. Tucker received the degree 
 of D. D. from Dartmouth in 1875 ; of LL. D. from 
 Williams in 1894, and LL. D. from Yale in 1896. 
 He was Phi Beta Kappa Orator of Harvard Uni- 
 versity in 1893, and was Lecturer at the Lowell 
 Institute, Boston, in 1894. He was Lecturer on 
 the Winckley Foundation, Andover Theological 
 Seminar}', in 1897, and Lecturer on the Lyman 
 Beecher Foundation, Yale University, in 1898. 
 He was one of the Founders and Editors of the 
 Andover Review, with which he was connected 
 from i885-'93. He was the Founder of the An- 
 dover Home, Boston, now known as the South 
 End Home, a social settlement. Doctor Tucker is 
 widely known as an educator and for his scholarly 
 addresses on many occasions of note, both in and 
 out of New Hampshire. Under his administration, 
 as the head of Dartmouth College, he has been 
 attended with marked success, and has been re- 
 warded by a great development of the college. 
 Doctor Tucker was married, June 22, 1870, to 
 Charlotte H. Rogers, who bore him two children : 
 
 THAYER, William Fiske, President of the First 
 National Bank, Concord, was born in Kingston, New 
 Hampshire, son of Calvin Thayer. He was edu- 
 cated at the Kimball Union Academy in Meriden. 
 He removed to Concord, and became Clerk in the 
 post-office, was soon advanced to the position of 
 Chief Clerk, and held the place four years. Enter- 
 
 W. F. THAVER. 
 
 ing the employ of the First National Bank as a 
 Clerk, he was promoted rapidly, and became Cash- 
 ier, and finally President. During his connection 
 with the bank, the deposits and the surplus have 
 been largely increased. The bank has one of the 
 best, if not the most spacious, and well-appointed 
 banking-rooms in New England. Mr. Thayer is 
 also connected as Director with several prominent 
 corporations and institutions in the state ; a Direc- 
 tor of the Northern New Hampshire Railroad; a 
 Trustee of the New Hampshire Asylum for the 
 Insane; was chosen Treasurer of the Republican 
 State Committee in 1892, and still holds the posi- 
 tion, and since 1879 ^^^.s been Treasurer of the 
 City of Concord. A Mason and Knights Templar. 
 Married Sarah C. Wentworth. 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 197 
 
 WALLACE, RoiiERT Moore, Lawyer, Milford, 
 was born in Henniker, New Hampshire, May 2, 
 1847, son of Jonas and Mary (Darling) Wallace. 
 His father was a well-known merchant of that 
 town, his ancestors being among the pioneer set- 
 tlers of Londonderry, New Hampshire. He was 
 educated in the common school and at the academy 
 in his native place; entered Dartmouth College at 
 the age of sixteen, and was graduated in the class 
 of '67. Shortly after, he began the study of law in 
 the office of Mason W. Tappan, afterward Attor- 
 ney-General of New Hampshire, and was admitted 
 to the Bar in 1870. The same year he removed to 
 Milford, where he formed a partnership with Bain- 
 bridge Wadleigh, United States Senator, which 
 continued until the latter removed to Boston. Since 
 
 R. II. WALLACE. 
 
 this time, Mr. Wallace has practiced alone. In 
 1877 and 1878 he was a member of the Legis- 
 lature and in 1889, a member of the Constitu- 
 tional Convention. He was appointed County 
 Solicitor for Hillsborough county in 1883, and 
 held the position for ten years, when he was ap- 
 pointed by Governor Smith, Associate Justice of 
 the Supreme Bench of New Hampshire. He mar- 
 ried in August, 1874, Ella M., daughter of the late 
 A. F. Hutchinson of Milford. They have three 
 children : Edward D., Robert B., and Helen Wal- 
 lace. 
 
 WASON, Edward Hill, Lawyer, Nashua, was 
 born in New Boston, New Hampshire, Septem- 
 ber 2, 1S65, son of George A. Wason. He was 
 educated at the Francestown Academy and at 
 the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and 
 Mechanic Arts, graduating with the degree of B. S. 
 in 1886. He read law in the office of George B. 
 French of Nashua ; later attended lectures at the 
 Boston University, where he was graduated in 
 1890 with the degree of LL. ]!. While pursuing 
 his law studies, he taught at the Main street even- 
 ing school, being Principal for a time. He was 
 admitted to the New Hampshire Bar in March, 
 1890, and opened a law office at Nashua. He 
 was City Solicitor in 1894 and 1895, and was re- 
 elected June I, 1896. He was a member of the 
 Common Council in 1896, and was President of 
 the City Council from June i, 1S96, for two years. 
 He is Treasurer of the Nashua Driving Park Asso- 
 ciation, a member of the Nashua Boat Club and 
 City Guards Club, Trustee of the Nashua Hospital 
 Association and of the John M. Hunt Home, and 
 President and Director of the Tarnic Ice Company. 
 
 E. H. WASON. 
 
 In 1887, he was chosen Sergeant-at-Arms of the 
 State Senate and was re-elected in 1893, and was 
 Clerk of the same body in 1895. He was elected 
 a member of the Nashua Board of Education in 
 June, 1895, and is President of the Board. He is 
 
igS 
 
 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 at present in partnership with George F. Jackson, 
 the firm name being Wason & Jackson. The firm 
 has a large practice and a brilliant future before it. 
 Mr. Wason is a member of Rising Sun Lodge, 
 Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, being Past 
 Master of the Lodge, a member of Meriden Sun 
 Royal Arch Chapter, Israel Hunt Council, and St. 
 George Commander)', Knights Templar, Edward A. 
 Raymond Consistory, Aleppo Temple of Boston, 
 and Nashua Lodge Knights of l^ythias. Mr. Wason 
 is unmarried. 
 
 WEEKS, John Wingate, Banker, Boston, 
 Massachusetts, was born in Lancaster, New Hamp- 
 shire, April II, iS6o, son of William D. and Mary 
 Helen (Fowler) Weeks. He is a direct descend- 
 ant of Leonard Weeks, who settled in Portsmouth 
 (now Greenland), New Hampshire, in 1657. He 
 received his education in the public schools and 
 academies of his native town. From 1S77 to 1881, 
 he attended the United States JSJaval Academy, 
 and after his graduation, made one cruise as a 
 
 JUHN \V. WEEK.'!,. 
 
 midshipman on the United States Steamship 
 K_ichmond. The years 1884 and 1885 he spent 
 locating Government lands, and surveying old 
 Spanish grants in Florida. During the following 
 year he was in the real estate business in Orlando, 
 
 Florida, and from 1887 to July i, 1888, he acted 
 as Assistant Commissioner of Lands and Immi- 
 gration for the Florida Southern Railroad. In 
 August, 1888, he removed to Boston to enter the 
 banking and brokerage business, and has remained 
 there ever since with an office at 53 State street. He 
 is a member of the firm of Hornblower & Weeks, 
 who have two memberships in the Boston and one 
 in the New York Stock Exchange. Mr. Weeks 
 has been a Director in the Massachusetts National 
 Bank, the oldest Bank in New England, since 
 1895, and since 1894 has been a Director in the 
 Newton Street Railway, and a Director and Vice- 
 President of the Central Massachusetts Railroad. 
 He is one of the Trustees of the Newton Land and 
 Improvement Company, and has been President of 
 the Newtonville Trust Company since its organiza- 
 tion in March, 1896. In i89o-'92 he commanded 
 a division of the Naval Brigade, in i892-'93 a Bat- 
 talion of the Naval Brigade, and since 1894 he has 
 commanded the Massachusetts Naval Brigade. 
 He is the Senior Naval Militia Officer in the 
 United States. In 1896 President Cleveland 
 appointed him a member of the Board of Visitors 
 to the United States Naval Academy. Mr. Weeks 
 is a member of the Middlesex and New Hamp- 
 shire Clubs, of the University Club of Boston, 
 being a member of the Admission Committee, of 
 the Army and Navy Club of Washington, of the 
 Society of the Sons of the Revolution, and of the 
 Society of the War of 18 12. In politics he is a 
 Republican. Mr. Weeks was married, October 7, 
 1885, to Martha A., daughter of John G. Sinclair. 
 They have two children : Katherine S., born 
 August 19, 1889, and Charles Sinclair Weeks, born 
 June 15, 1893. 
 
 ANNABLE, Edwin Guilford, Physician, Con- 
 cord, was born in Newport, Province of Quebec, 
 Canada, December 2, 1840, son of Jacob Merrill 
 and Eunice (Dean) Annable. He is of English an- 
 cestry, being descended in the paternal line from 
 Anthony Annable, who came from County Kent in 
 1623 in the ship Ann, and landed in Plymouth. 
 After living here for seventeen years, he removed 
 to Scituate and later to Barnstable, Massachusetts. 
 He was known in the colony as " Good Man Anna- 
 ble," and was held in high esteem. Ansel Anna- 
 ble, who was in the sixth generation from Anthony 
 and who was the grandfather of Doctor Annable, 
 settled in Groton, New Hampshire, where he lived 
 for some years until, finding the soil too barren and 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 199 
 
 the prospects too poor to meet the needs of a grow- 
 ing family, he moved to Newport in the Province 
 of Quebec, Canada, in or about 1820. He settled 
 in a complete wilderness, but a few years of per- 
 sistent effort served to clear the land of a heavy 
 growth of timber and to transform it into one of 
 the finest farms of the region. His son, Jacob 
 Annable, was about eight years old when the fam- 
 ily moved from Groton. He remained on the 
 home farm and in January, 1836, married Eunice 
 Dean, whose mother was Susan Russ, in direct 
 line from Henry Russ who came from Hingham, 
 Norfolk county, England, in 1633 or 1635. The 
 family of Jacob Annable consisted of six children, 
 three sons and three daughters. Doctor Annable 
 was the second son. The years of his boyhood 
 and early manhood were spent at school and at 
 light farm work. The seven years following were 
 spent in New Hampshire and Canada until the 
 spring of 1868, when he removed to Concord. For 
 a number of years he engaged in various pursuits, 
 following no fixed purpose until the summer of 
 1877, when, after much serious thought, a plan was 
 earnestly considered and faithfully carried out, to 
 devote all spare time to study in preparation for 
 his future profession. Courses of study were con- 
 scientiously pursued, in anatomy, physiology and 
 chemistry, and then a lecture course was taken at 
 Dartmouth College. The next year was spent at 
 the University of \'ermont, where his degree was 
 given. Deciding upon Fitzwilliam, New Hamp- 
 shire, as a location for practice he there formed a 
 partnership with Doctor Silas Cumings, a ripe 
 scholar and skillful practitioner. The partnership 
 of three years was cut short by the death of Doc- 
 tor Cumings, but it was of long enough duration to 
 establish the confidence of the people. After 
 nearly seven years of practice in Fitzwilliam, he 
 removed to Norwich, Vermont, in June, 1886, at 
 the solicitation of relatives there. He very shortly 
 built up a good business, extending over a large 
 territory in Vermont and New Hampshire. Here 
 he had under his care the celebrated case of dry 
 gangrene of Gideon Lord, a man seventy-two years 
 of age. The gangrene extended to the lower mar- 
 gin of the knee-cap, and Doctor Annable cut away 
 first the muscle and finally the diseased bones and 
 in a short time healing began. In less than six 
 months a healthy stub was formed and later a peg 
 leg was attached that did excellent service for the 
 nine years of life remaining. In June, 1894, Doc- 
 tor Annable removed to Concord, desiring a more 
 
 concentrated practice. His health had become 
 somewhat impaired by his labors in Norwich. Dur- 
 ing the last four years, a good practice has been 
 established and a fair promise for the future seems 
 in a fair way to be realized. He is a member of 
 
 E. G. ANNABLE. 
 
 the New Hampshire Medical Society, also of the 
 American y\ssociation of Physicians and Surgeons, 
 and of the White River (A'ermont) Medical Society. 
 He is an Odd Fellow, a member of Rumford Lodge 
 of Concord. Doctor Annable married June 9, 
 1863, Louisa Maria Farwell, of Robinson, Province 
 of Quebec, youngest daughter of William Farwell. 
 Crown Land Agent of the Government Lands of 
 the Province of Quebec. They have four children: 
 Edwin Walter, born in Eaton, Province of Quebec, 
 May 29, 1864, who married Gertrude Paige of 
 Downers Grove, Illinois, and who is at present 
 Pastor of the First Baptist church of Millegeville, 
 Illinois ; Angela Dean, born in Robinson, Province 
 of Quebec, April 20, 1866, and who married Henry 
 Roberts ; Alice Louisa, born in Concord, New 
 Hampshire, April iS, 1874, and who married Cur- 
 tis Chamberlin in October, 1894; and Bessie Far- 
 well Annable, born in Norwich, Vermont, Septem- 
 ber 30, 1887. Doctor Annable has five grand- 
 children : Neil and Lawrence Annable ; Gladys A. 
 Roberts, and Harold C. and Louisa Merle Cham- 
 berlin. 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 CRANE, John Summerfield, Manufacturer, 
 Lakeport, was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, 
 February 3, 1S34, son of Luther and Rebecca 
 (Manter) Crane. On the paternal side he is 
 descended from an old family of Canton, Massa- 
 
 J. S. CRANE. 
 
 chusetts ; on the maternal side he traces his 
 descent from ancestors resident in Plymouth, 
 Massachusetts, and is a direct descendant of Gov- 
 ernor Bradford of the Massachusetts Colony. Mr. 
 Crane received a common school education and 
 attended the Berwick Academy in Maine. While 
 he was at school, his skill in drawing attracted 
 attention, and a gentleman, impressed with his 
 talent, offered to educate him as an artist. Young 
 Crane, however, did not avail himself of this oppor- 
 tunity, but at the age of fifteen shipped on a 
 clipper bound for India. The voyage lasted 
 twenty-two months, and gave the youth a trip 
 around the world, besides curing him of his longing 
 for a life at sea. For a year he was busy learning 
 the trade of a machinist at Salmon Falls. Then 
 he removed first to Lawrence, and then to Lowell, 
 where for a year he had charge of a sewing- 
 machine factory. Subsequently Mr. Crane resided 
 for a time in Manchester. After a Western trip in 
 search of a promising business opening, he went to 
 Lakeport in 1S57, where he was employed by 
 Thomas Appleton in the hosiery business. In 
 
 1862, he formed a partnership with William Pepper, 
 the firm being Crane & Pepper, to build knitting 
 machines. In 1864, Mr. Crane became Superin- 
 tendent of the Winnepesaukee Hosiery Company, 
 in which he was a part owner, and in 1865, having 
 meanwhile bought out his partners, sold the works 
 to R. M. Bailey. In rSyg, he became connected 
 with Walter Aiken of Franklin in the proprietor- 
 ship of the Gilmore Revolving Diamond Stone 
 Dressing Machine. Mr. Crane in 1872 bought an 
 interest in a plant for the manufacture of circular 
 knitting machines, the firm being Crane & Peaslee. 
 In the following year, Mr. Crane patented a 
 machine for making shirts and underwear, and this 
 industry was added to the firm's business. In 
 1878, the firm became J. S. Crane & Company, 
 and in 1S90 was incorporated under the name of 
 the Crane Manufacturing Company, J. S. Crane, 
 President, M. L. Crane, Secretary and Treasurer. 
 He represented Laconia in the State Legislature in 
 1875, and Gilford in that of 1878. He was one of 
 the incorporators and is now a Director of the 
 Lake Village Savings Bank ; he is a Director and 
 Vice-President of the National Bank of Lakeport. 
 In politics he is a Republican. He is a Mason 
 and belongs to various Masonic bodies up to the 
 Thirty-second Degree. Mr. Crane married, in 
 1856, Clara J. Smith of Nashua. He has one 
 child, Mazellah L. Crane. 
 
 COLE, Edmund ("hase. Editor of the Kearsarge 
 Independent and Times, Warner, was born in Mil- 
 ton Plantation, Maine, October 5, 1845, son of 
 Laurenson and Lucinda (Spofford) Cole. He is 
 of English descent. His great-grandfather was a 
 Revolutionary soldier, and his grandfather and 
 father held the ranks, respectively, of Colonel and 
 Captain in the state militia. Mr. Cole attended 
 the common and select schools in Milton and 
 adjacent towns, and prepared for college at Nor- 
 way and Hebron Academies. He was a student 
 at Colby University through Freshman year, but 
 took the remainder of the college course at Bow- 
 doin, from which he wa.s graduated in the class of 
 187 I. In the fall of that year he became the first 
 Principal of Simonds Free High School at Warner, 
 a position he held for three years. Mr. Cole began 
 the study of law, as supplementary to his educa- 
 tion in August, 1874, and continued it for the next 
 three years, in the course of which time he taught 
 for one term in Marlow Academy and for three 
 terms in Contoocook Academy. Altogether he has 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 20l 
 
 to his credit as an instructor thirty-six terms of 
 successful viork in the schools. In pursuing his 
 legal studies, Mr. Cole spent considerable time in 
 the office of the late John Y. Mugridge in Concord, 
 but though he grounded himself well in the law, he 
 never applied for admission to the Bar. In the 
 fall of 1878, he bought in Portsmouth the equip- 
 ment of a printing-oifice and removed it to Warner, 
 and subsequently began publication of the Kear- 
 sarge Independent, the first issue of the paper 
 bearing date of April 4, 1S84. In the following 
 December he bought the subscription list of the 
 Hopkinton Times, published at Contoocook, and 
 changed his paper's name to the Kearsarge Inde- 
 pendent and Times. This journal continues to 
 prosper, and is now in the fifteenth year of its pub- 
 lication. Mr. Cole has been a member of the 
 School Board for many years ; for four terms was 
 Supervisor of check list; was Postmaster during 
 the last year of President Arthur's administration; 
 and at present is a member of the Board of Health, 
 Vice-President of the Trustees of Pillsbury Free 
 Library, and a local police officer, and is an ear- 
 
 EDMUND C. COLE. 
 
 nest advocate of all matters pertaining to the pros- 
 perity and welfare of the town. In politics he is a 
 consistent Republican. He is a member of Cen- 
 tral Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 
 Welcome Rebekah Lodge, Warner Grange, Warner's 
 
 Commandery, United Order Golden Cross, and 
 Kearsarge Division, Sons of Temperance. In all 
 these lodges, except the Rebekahs, he has held the 
 principal offices. Mr. Cole married, in January, 
 1877, Mrs. Emma B. Quiraby, daughter of Asa and 
 Sally Pattee. Of this marriage, one child, Sarah 
 Adelaide Cole, was born. Mrs. Cole died Septem- 
 ber 28, 1882, and August 3, 1889, Mr. Cole mar- 
 ried Fanny H. Corey. His children of the second 
 marriage are: Edward Everett, born in 1891 ; 
 Mary Gertrude, born in 1892 ; Thomas Reed, born 
 in 1894; and Nada Lucile Cole, born in 1S96. 
 
 FELLOWS, Joseph Warren, a Leading Mem- 
 ber of the New Hampshire Bar, comes from rugged 
 English stock on both the paternal and maternal 
 sides. Mr. Samuel Fellows, the emigrating ancestor 
 of the paternal line, came to Massachusetts from 
 Great Bowden, Nottinghamshire, England, and set- 
 tled in Salisbury about 1639. He belonged to an 
 agricultural race and was styled a planter in the 
 colonial records, and became possessed of landed 
 property to a considerable extent. The subject of 
 this sketch is of the seventh generation in a direct 
 line from Samuel Fellows. His great-grandfather, 
 Joseph Fellows, served in the second expedition 
 against Louisburg, and the powder-horn which he 
 carried during that campaign, still in a good state 
 of preservation, is in the possession of Mr. Fellows. 
 Joseph Fellows removed from Salisbury to the 
 town of Andover, New Hampshire, then called 
 New Breton, in 1761, being the first settler, and 
 for about a year the only resident there. The 
 story is, that for a considerable time his only road- 
 way from what is now Penacook to Andover was a 
 line of spotted trees through the wilderness. A 
 nephew bearing the same name, was a member of 
 Captain Osgood's company at the battle of Ben- 
 nington, and served in the campaign in which the 
 battles of Saratoga, Stillwater, and others in that 
 vicinity were fought. He has the credit, in the 
 annals of those times, of having furnished his own 
 gun and other equipments. The son of Joseph 
 Fellows, the original settler of Andover, Stephen 
 Fellows, and the grandson, John Fellows, were 
 born and lived upon the farm which he cleared 
 from the wilderness. Joseph Warren Fellows, the 
 son of John and Polly Hilton Fellows, was born 
 January 15, 1835, on the homestead of Elijah Hil- 
 ton, the maternal grandfather. On the mother's 
 side his ancestry, the Hiltons, came from England 
 some time about 1700, one date fixing the time of 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 the emigrating ancestors at 169S and another at 
 1 703. General Alexander Scammel Dearborn, whose 
 public services are well known to the country, was 
 an ancestor upon the mother's side in a direct line. 
 Joseph Warren Fellows, the subject of this sketch, 
 passed his boyhood much after the manner of New 
 Hampshire boys of that time. His father being a 
 farmer, he learned the practical lesson of hard 
 woik and acquired habits of unremitting industry 
 upon the farm and in the lumber swamps. He at- 
 tended the common schools of the town and An- 
 dover (New Hampshire) Academy, where he com- 
 pleted the college preparatory course, entering 
 Dartmouth College in the fall of 1854. During 
 the winter months of his college course he taught 
 schools in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, and 
 upon graduation in 1S58 became Principal of An- 
 dover xAcademy, where he remained during the 
 academic year, iSsS-'sg. Being of an enterpris- 
 ing and self-reliant disposition, he removed to 
 Georgia in September, 1859, where he accepted the 
 position of Principal of the Classical Department 
 in the Brownwood Institute at Lagrange. In the 
 spring of i860 he became the Principal of the 
 Marietta, Georgia, Latin School, with the expecta- 
 tion of a permanent and satisfactory position, but 
 the sudden prospect of war abruptly changed his 
 plans, and after closing the academic 5 ear in June 
 he returned to the North. His career as a teacher 
 had been especially gratifying and but for the out- 
 break of the war would undoubtedly have been fol- 
 lowed with substantial success and material profit. 
 Upon his return North Mr. Fellows wasted no time 
 in idle regrets but entered the office of Hon. John 
 M. Shirley in Andover and began the study of law. 
 Since the war had completely changed his course, 
 it is probable that no more fortunate step could 
 have been taken. Mr. Shirley was a man of great 
 force of character, marked originality, and thor- 
 oughly versed in the law, the sort of man to make 
 a deep impression upon the mind of a receptive 
 and earnest student. Tn September, 1860, he en- 
 tered the law department in the Albany LTniversity, 
 and after completing the course of study in that 
 institution graduated in June, 1861. He was ad- 
 mitted to the Bar in the Court of Appeals in the 
 State of New York, and returning soon after to 
 New Hampshire entered the office of Pike & Barn- 
 ard at Franklin, where he remained until January, 
 1862. He then located in Manchester, entered the 
 office of Eastman & Cross, and commenced the 
 practice of his profession. In August, 1862, he 
 
 was admitted to the Supreme Court of New Hamp- 
 shire at Concord, and in September formed a part- 
 nership with Captain Amos B. Shattuck of Man- 
 chester. Once more the war had a direct influence 
 upon his plans. Captain Shattuck had volunteered 
 and was about to join his regiment, and this part- 
 nership was for the purpose of taking care of his 
 business with the intention of making it permanent 
 upon his return from the war. But Captain Shat-. 
 tuck fell, seriously wounded, at the battle of Fred- 
 ericksburg, December 13, 1862, and died a few 
 days later. Mr. Fellows on the first day of January 
 following began business alone in the office in 
 Merchants' Exchange which he has since occupied 
 
 J. \\". FELLOWS. 
 
 continuously, entering upon that career of persistent 
 industry and fidelity to his clients which has won 
 for him a recognized position at the Bar of his 
 native state and has gained for him a well-earned 
 reputation which extends far beyond its limits. In 
 1874 he was elected Clerk of the Concord Rail- 
 road and soon became the Attorney for the corpo- 
 ration in the care and management of the business 
 which grew out of the operating of that company. 
 He held the position of Clerk until 1884, and has 
 continued in the employment of the Concord, the 
 Concord & Montreal, and the Boston &: Maine 
 Railroads until the present time. It follows that 
 while he has been successful in general practice, 
 trying many different cases, the character of his 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 203 
 
 professional work has been largely that pertaining 
 to corporations, and more especially to business 
 growing out of the operation of railroads, in which 
 he has had probably a larger experience than any 
 other lawyer in the state. He has been extensively 
 engaged in matters relating to private and business 
 corporations, having made the law relating to the 
 powers and duties of corporations a specialty. In 
 1S74 Mr. Fellows was appointed Judge of the Po- 
 lice Court of the City of Manchester, which office 
 he held until July, 1875, '^^'hen he resigned the po- 
 sition. It was to be assumed, from the rugged 
 character of his ancestry, from the discipline of his 
 youth, and the sharply-contested struggles of his 
 maturer years, Judge Fellows is a man of marked 
 independence of thought, positive in his convic- 
 tions, and fearless in maintaining them. A Demo- 
 crat from boyhood, he has always taken a deep 
 interest in the politics of the state, and has taken 
 an active part in every campaign, both in state and 
 city politics, until within the last one or two elec- 
 tions. He was long connected with the Demo- 
 cratic State Committee, and influential in its 
 councils, and was actively identified with the City 
 Committee for many years, never having been a 
 candidate himself. He has labored earnestly and 
 continuously for the advancement of the principles 
 to which he steadfastly adhered, being justly recog- 
 nized as a hard fighter, tenacious and resourceful 
 in politics, as in the practice of his chosen profes- 
 sion, and until recently being strongly and une- 
 quivocally identified with the Democratic party, 
 and a staunch champion of the doctrines for which 
 he believed that party stood. \\'hile constantly 
 occupied with weighty affairs calling for the best 
 that was in him of knowledge of the law, of power 
 of original thinking, and of resources in emer- 
 gency. Judge Fellows has ever been ready to give 
 of his time and energy to the promotion of the 
 interests of the community in which he lives. In 
 matters of religious faith he is a Unitarian, and 
 has been intimately identified with the work and 
 interests of that denomination in the state for more 
 than thirty years. He has been particularly active 
 and interested in promoting the Unitarian Grove 
 Meetings at the Weirs, on the shores of the beauti- 
 ful Lake Winnipiseogee, and has taken a lively 
 and influential interest in the affairs of the differ- 
 ent conventions of the denomination, both in the 
 state and nation. He was one of the charter 
 members of the Unitarian Educational Societ)-, and 
 is one of the Trustees of Proctor Academy, owned 
 
 by the Educational Society, and has been con- 
 stantly and earnestly identified with the institution 
 from its origin, it being the successor of the origi- 
 nal Andover Academy, where he spent his school- 
 days, and for which he cherishes a strong affection. 
 Judge Fellows is also one of the original Grantees 
 and Trustees of the Gale Home, for the support of 
 indigent and destitute women, and has served as 
 Clerk of the corporation since its organization. In 
 secret society associations he is a member of the 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows, but has never 
 taken any considerable part in the management of 
 the affairs of that society. As early as 185S, how- 
 ever, he became a member of the Masonic Frater- 
 nity, with which he has ever since been intimately 
 identified. He is possessed of all the grades, 
 including the Orders of Knighthood, and the Thir- 
 ty-third and last grade of the Ancient and 
 Accepted Scottish Rite. He has held very many 
 positions in the subordinate and grand bodies of 
 the fraternity, among others, Grand Commander of 
 Knights Templar in the State of New Hampshire, 
 and has been an Officer in the Grand Encampment 
 of the United States, Grand Lecturer of the Grand 
 Lodge of Masons in New Hampshire for several 
 years, and, for the last fifteen or twenty years, a 
 member of the Law Committees connected with the 
 fraternity of the state and nation, He has also been 
 a member of the Committee of Jurisprudence of the 
 Grand Encampment of the United States for many 
 years, and has given particular attention and study 
 to Masonic law, a subject upon which he has per- 
 pared a large number of thoughtful and carefully- 
 digested opinions and reports, exerting a very con- 
 siderable influence in developing and shaping the 
 jurisprudence of the order. Judge Fellows mar- 
 ried, in 1865, Susan Frances Moore, daughter of 
 Henry E. and Susan (Farnum) Moore. She was 
 removed by death in 1S74, and in 1S78 he married 
 Mrs. Elizabeth B. Davis. Mrs. Fellows has two 
 daughters : May \y., and Edith H. Davis, to whom 
 the Judge has been a father in very truth, and hus- 
 band, wife, and daughters have established a home 
 amid most congenial surroundings, where kindly 
 hospitality is unpretentious, and where the love of 
 art and literature is cherished without ostentation. 
 
 GIBSON, Charles Reuel, Physician, Woods- 
 ville, was born in Alstead, New Hampshire, May 
 II, 1S52, son of Reuel and Emily (Barnard) Gib- 
 son. He attended the common schools of his 
 native town and Appleton Academy, New Ipswich, 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 New Hampshire, graduating in 1872. He was 
 graduated from the Medical School of Maine in 
 1875. He was subsequently House Physician and 
 Surgeon in the Maine General Hospital at Port- 
 land, in the years 1876 and 1877. In 1877 he began 
 the practice of his profession in Woodsville, and 
 has remained there ever since. Since 1S84 he has 
 held the position of Assistant Surgeon for the Con- 
 cord & Montreal Railroad, and he is also Physi- 
 cian to the Grafton County Almshouse. He is 
 Local Medical Examiner for all the leading Life 
 Insurance Companies doing business in the vi- 
 cinit)'. Doctor Gibson served on the School 
 Board in 1884 and 1885. He is President of the 
 
 C. K. GIBSON. 
 
 Woodsville I^oan and Banking Company, and has 
 been a Trustee of the Woodsville Savings Bank 
 since its organization. He represented the town 
 of Haverhill in the Legislature in 1897. He is a 
 member of the New Hampshire and Vermont State 
 Medical Societies, and has been Secretary for the 
 White Mountain Medical Society for twenty years. 
 He is Past Grand of the Moosilauke Lodge, Inde- 
 pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and is Vice-Presi- 
 dent of the John L. Woods Club of Woodsville. 
 Doctor Gibson was married January 30, 1880, to 
 Jennie S. Park of Plymouth, New Hampshire. 
 
 GORDON, Nathaniel, was born in the old 
 homestead at Gordon's Hill, Exeter, New Hamp- 
 
 shire, November 26, 1820, son of John S., and 
 Frances Gordon. He is a lineal descendant, in 
 the sixth generation, of Alexander, a scion of the 
 loyal Gordon family in the Highlands of Scotland. 
 This young Alexander was a soldier in the Royal- 
 ist army of Charles II, but was captured by Crom- 
 well, confined for a time in the Tuthill Fields, 
 London, and sent to America in 1651. He was 
 held as prisoner of war at Watertown, Massachu- 
 setts, until 1654, when he was released. He after- 
 wards came to Exeter, New Hampshire, where in 
 J 663 he married Mary, daughter of Nicholas Lys- 
 son. The next year, the town voted him a grant 
 of twenty acres of land, and he became a perma- 
 nent resident, dying in 1697. From him and his 
 descendants, Gordon's Hill received its name. He 
 had eight children, of whom Thomas was born in 
 1678. Thomas married Elizabeth Harriman of 
 Haverhill, was father of eleven children, and died 
 in 1762. From Thomas's son Timothy was de- 
 scended John S. Gordon, and from Thomas's son 
 Nathaniel was descended Frances Gordon. The 
 line of John S. Gordon is Timothy (i), Timothy 
 (2), (Revolutionary soldier of bravery under Gen- 
 eral Stark in the battles of Bunker Hill, Benning- 
 ton, and Saratoga), and John S. Gordon. The line 
 of Frances is Thomas, Nathaniel (i), Nathaniel 
 (2), and Frances Gordon. John S. Gordon, like 
 his immediate ancestors, was a quiet, unassuming 
 farmer on Gordon's Hill. He never sought or 
 cared for office, but was a man of influence and 
 weight in his neighborhood, serving in his unobtru- 
 sive way his day and generation well. His mar- 
 riage to Frances Gordon occurred March 11, 1814, 
 and his death in 1845. Mrs. Gordon was a supe- 
 rior woman in mental endowments, love of nature, 
 and social and domestic virtues in her devotion to 
 God, and in Christian attainment. She was mar- 
 ried at the age of twenty. There were born to her 
 four children, three daughters and a son, of whom 
 the daughters in their maturity preceded her to the 
 better land. She peacefully departed this life at 
 the house of her son, Hon. Nathaniel Gordon, in 
 Exeter, in February, T8S9, at the age of ninety-five 
 years, four months, and sixteen days. Her son, 
 Nathaniel, the subject of this sketch, entered 
 Phillips Exeter Academy in the autumn of 1833, 
 was there fitted for college, and in 1838 entered 
 the Sophomore class of Dartmouth College, and 
 was graduated therefrom in 1841. Each winter of 
 his college course he taught school three months. 
 After graduation, he taught from September, 1841, 
 
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 205 
 
 to May, 1S42, at St. Thomas Hall, Flushing, 
 Long Island. Going South, he passed the summer 
 of 1842 as teacher in a Female Seminary in Balti- 
 more, and in Washington. In September, 1842, 
 he became tutor in a private family in Prince 
 George's county, Maryland; and held this position 
 for two years. During this time, he studied law, 
 and was admitted to the Bar, at the April term of 
 Prince George's county in 1844. For about two 
 years he practiced in various courts of Prince 
 George's, Calvert, and Charles counties. He then 
 removed to Baltimore, where he practiced for one 
 year. In September, 1847, he returned to Exeter, 
 where he has made his home ever since. Mr. 
 Gordon opened a law otifice in Exeter, and con- 
 tinued the practice of his profession until the 
 breaking out of the Civil War in 1861. He has 
 often been called upon to fill important positions 
 of office and trust, and has ever been alive to the 
 best interest of his constituents, discharging his 
 duties with conscientious ability. In 1849, he was 
 chosen Secretary and Treasurer of the Rocking- 
 ham Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Company, 
 and was re-elected annually for eight years. He 
 represented Exeter in the Legislatures of 1849 ^"^ 
 1850, and his district in the State Senate in 1869 
 and 1870. In 1S70, he was chosen President of 
 the Senate; in 1870, his name was brought for- 
 ward by his friends as a candidate for Congress 
 before the Republican Congressional Convention 
 held at Dover in December, 1870. On the first 
 ballot he received seventy-six votes out of two 
 hundred and forty-four, the largest number cast for 
 any candidate; eighty-five votes on the next ballot, 
 but after the third ballot he withdrew in favor of 
 Mr. Small, who was nominated and elected. True 
 to his principles, Mr. Gordon has been the uncom- 
 promising foe of slavery, and in the dark and try- 
 ing days of 1861 was one of the boldest persons in 
 Exeter in support of the Union, placing every dol- 
 lar he owned and all that he could borrow in gov- 
 ernment securities, thus showing his faith by his 
 works. The result of this confidence was a very 
 satisfactory accumulation of property. In 1865, 
 he made a trip to California and Nevada in the 
 interest of the Silver Mining Company of Boston, 
 and remained a year. At the age of eighteen, 
 while a Sophomore in Dartmouth College, Mr. 
 Gordon united with the Congregational Church at 
 Hanover ; from that time he has continued an ear- 
 nest and devoted Christian, making other matters 
 and secular pursuits subordinate to the cause of 
 
 Christ. He has taken a deep interest in Sabbath- 
 school work, and for ten years was a Superin- 
 tendent of the Sabbath-school of the Second Con- 
 gregational Church of Exeter, of which he was a 
 member. He was also a Deacon of this church for 
 thirty years. The numerous benefactions of Mr. 
 Gordon show he has caught the spirit of the Mas- 
 ter. His time and his money have been freely 
 given in aid of many good enterprises. From his 
 interest in education, he was chosen, December 15, 
 1866, one of the seven members comprising the 
 first Board of Trustees of the Robinson Female 
 Seminary then just organized. He was also Chair- 
 man of the Superintending School Committee of 
 
 \ 
 
 NATHANIEL CORDON. 
 
 Exeter several years. His kindness to strusffflino- 
 and deserving students will long be remembered, 
 and in 1872 he gave one thousand dollars to Phil- 
 lips Exeter Academy for a scholarship, for such 
 students; in 1874, he gave one thousand more for 
 the same purpose, and in 1881, gave to Dartmouth 
 College one thousand dollars for a like purpose ; 
 in 1886, he gave an additional one thousand for a 
 scholarship. He is also one of the founders of the 
 New Hampshire Orphans' Home, Franklin, New 
 Hampshire. In 1885, he gave to the "Home" one 
 thousand dollars to be added to their permanent 
 fund, the interest alone to be expended in the sup- 
 port of the institution. In 18S7, he, by an addi- 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 tional one thousand dollars, increased the endow- 
 ment. The benefactions of Mr. Gordon are not 
 limited to his native state. In 1880, he aided in 
 the fund raised for General Grant by his friends. 
 He has been a patron of the General Theological 
 Librar}- of Boston, and is at this time one of its 
 Vice-Presidents. He has placed libraries in whal- 
 ing ships for the promotion of good morals among 
 sailors. He has established several Sabbath- 
 schools west of the Mississippi, and encouraged 
 them by sending to them libraries. Mr. Gordon 
 has also contributed liberally to the American 
 Board of Christian Foreign Missions for the sup- 
 port of our missionaries in heathen lands. In 
 1892, he gave to the Congregational Educational 
 Societ)' five thousand dollars as a permanent fund 
 for the endowment of Ogden Academy in the Ter- 
 ritory of Utah. In 1893, he gave five thousand 
 more to the same society, making the endowment 
 for Ogden Academy ten thousand dollars. In 
 1892, Mr. Gordon gave the American Board of 
 Christian Foreign Missions five thousand dollars 
 for the endowment of a permanent fund for Tun- 
 cho Theological Seminary near Pekin, China. 
 This institution is designed for the preparation of 
 young Christian Chinamen to preach the gospel 
 of Christ. In 1893, he gave an additional five 
 thousand dollars to this seminary, making the 
 entire endowment the same as the endowment of 
 Ogden Academy, ten thousand dollars. And he 
 gives also to each of these last named educational 
 institutions fifty dollars annually for the purpose of 
 building up the libraries in each for the benefit of 
 the students. Mr. Gordon also has a love for the 
 grand and beautiful in nature, no less than for 
 the enjoyment and happiness of school children. 
 There are a pair of magnificent white oaks near 
 the school house at the foot of Gordon's Hill 
 where he first went to school, under which the 
 children used to play. These oaks are centuries 
 old, and were probably contemporaneous with the 
 aborigines of New Hampshire. Their grandeur 
 caught the eye of the ship-builder, in 1869, in 
 search of timber to plough the seas. He coveted 
 them for the ribs of his ships, and made a tempt- 
 ing offer to the owner. It came to the ears of Mr. 
 Gordon. He at once bought an acre of the land 
 whereupon the majestic oaks were standing, and 
 gave the land and oaks to the town of Exeter for 
 a school-house lot. The school children will con- 
 tinue to enjoy them for many generations, and the 
 noble trees will stand for centuries to come. 
 
 admired by all observers. He also owns a grove 
 of oaks of about four acres in the village of Exeter, 
 adjoining the Academy campus, which he gives to 
 the town of Exeter on condition that the trees are 
 not to be cut down. This brief sketch of Mr. 
 Gordon would be incomplete without a few words 
 in reference to his mother. Mr. Gordon says her 
 voice to him in childhood seemed to be the voice 
 of God, and that he could not outgrow the feeling 
 in manhood ; that his mother had more to do with 
 the formation of his character than all other things 
 of an earthly nature. It seems to him that she 
 attained that state of mind and heart which our 
 Saviour enjoined upon his followers in his sermon 
 on the Mount, 'Be Ye therefore perfect even as 
 your Father which is in Heaven is perfect." Mr. 
 Gordon married first, Alcina Evelyn, daughter of 
 Moses Sanborn of Kingston, New Hampshire, 
 December 26, 1S53. Their children were : Moses 
 Sanborn, John Thomas (died in infancy), Nathaniel, 
 Frances Evelyn, and Mary Alcina Elizabeth. Mrs. 
 Gordon died on the 14th of April, 1864. June 4, 
 1 868, he again married Georgiana, daughter of 
 John Lowe, Jr., of Exeter. Mr. Gordon's eldest 
 son is married and lives in Texas. His youngest 
 son is unmarried and lives in New York city. His 
 oldest daughter is married to Professor George 
 Lyman Kittredge of Harvard College. His younger 
 daughter is the wife of Mr. William H, Foster, 
 an instructor at St. Paul's School, Concord, New 
 Hampshire. Systematic and conservative in busi- 
 ness, Mr. Gordon has been financially prospered, 
 but believing that "it is not all of life, to live," his 
 gains are not the object of his worship. In many 
 and widely varying directions the kindness of his 
 benefactions will be a blessing and source of happi- 
 ness to many generations yet to come. Mr. Gor- 
 don lives in simplicity and retirement on Pine 
 Street in Exeter, on a small farm of about twenty 
 acres of tillage land, meadow, and oak forest, and 
 with Little river meandering through the meadow. 
 
 PERKINS, HoRF.A B.^LLOU, Retired Merchant, 
 New York, was born in Dover, New Hampshire, 
 August 4, 18 19, son of Robert and Relief (Earle) 
 Perkins. He is descended from one of the oldest 
 families of New Hampshire. He was educated in 
 the public schools, leaving them, however, when he 
 was fourteen years of age, and dividing the remain- 
 ing years of his boyhood between farm and clerk 
 life. At seventeen, with no capital save his native 
 energy, and without any acquaintance in the great 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 207 
 
 city, except a poor colored man, he went to New 
 York to seek his fortune. Mr. Perkins began his 
 business career in New York as a clerk in the large 
 carpet establishment of Shaw & Carter. At the end 
 of his second year with this firm, he declined a lib- 
 eral salary offered him to remain with the company, 
 and embarked in business on his own account, tak- 
 ing as a partner his younger brother, James P. Per- 
 kins. For twenty-five years the career of this firm 
 of carpet merchants was steadily successful in spite 
 of financial crises through which the country passed 
 during that time. Notwithstanding the demands of 
 business, Mr. Perkins was able to devote much time 
 to other pursuits, and became well known as a pub- 
 
 H. B. PERKINS. 
 
 lie speaker. In iSyi.he received the honorary 
 degree of Master of Arts from Bowdoin, and in 
 1875 was similarly honored by Dartmouth College. 
 In the fall of the latter year he delivered to the 
 Dartmouth students, a popular lecture on Robert 
 Burns, the Scottish poet, which was repeated two 
 years later at the request of the faculty. Mr. Per- 
 kins has delivered many addresses before agricul- 
 tural societies, colleges, political and other gather- 
 ings, also before lyceums. He has always been in 
 great demand as an after dinner speaker. During 
 the Civil War he represented his native state in the 
 New England Relief Association, and eloquently 
 pleaded the cause of the Union. When the Second 
 
 New Hampshire Regiment arrived in New York, 
 under command of Colonel Marston, Ylr. Perkins 
 was selected by the sons of New Hampshire resident 
 in that city, to make the address of welcome, and 
 this he did on the P.attery, in the presence of ten 
 thousand people. The speech was republished 
 widely by the New England press. Among other 
 notable addresses delivered, are included a speech 
 made at the twenty-fifth State Fair of the New 
 Hampshire Agricultural Society, and a response to 
 the toast, "Our Country,' at the famous Burns din- 
 ner where David Dudley P"ield presided, and Horace 
 Greeley, William Cullen Bryant, the Rev. Dr. E. H. 
 Chapin, and other distinguished men spoke. In 
 politics, Mr. Perkins has been a life-long Democrat, 
 eflicient and active on the stump during many cam- 
 paigns. He has never sought political office, but 
 was content to serve the educational interests of 
 New York as Commissioner and Inspector of Pub- 
 lic Schools for more than thirty years. During the 
 last year of Fernando Wood's mayoralty in New 
 York, the nomination for the Assembly in the 
 Twelfth Ward was tendered Mr. Perkins, but was 
 declined. Later, under the leadership of John 
 Kelly, he was nominated for State Senator, but this 
 nomination also was declined, very much to the re- 
 gret of his party. Mr. Perkins is a member of the 
 Tammany Society, of the Democratic Club, the 
 Fordham Club, and the Washington Heights Century 
 Club. He was President of the last named organ- 
 ization for ten years. He was married, November 
 9, 1843, to Harriet Louise Hanmer, who died in 
 1888. Mr. Perkins purchased a beautiful estate at 
 Fort Washington, forty years ago, where he now re- 
 sides in one of the most valuable suburban villas of 
 the Greater New York. Six children are living, one 
 son and five daughters, who are married and reside 
 in New York or in the vicinity of the great Metrop- 
 olis. 
 
 PITMAN, Charles Fr.vnk, Manufacturer, 
 Laconia, was born in that place, October 6, 1847, 
 son of Joseph Prescott and Charlotte Abbie (Par- 
 ker) Pitman. He is descended from early Puritan 
 settlers of Essex County, Massachusetts, and among 
 his ancestors were men who served with distinction 
 in the Colonial Wars and in the Revolution. His 
 father was a leading business man of Laconia, 
 Agent of the Lake Company, a Managing Director 
 of the Boston, Concord & Montreal Railroad, and 
 at the time of his death President of the Pemige- 
 wasset Valley Railroad. No one contributed more 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 to the growth and prosperity of Laconia. The 
 mother of the subject of this sketch was a pupil of 
 Mar\- Lyon, the distinguished teacher who founded 
 Mount Holyoke College, and was a woman of great 
 personal attractions, charming manner, and strong 
 character. Charles Frank Pitman was educated at 
 New Hampton Academy, and Phillips Academy at 
 Andover. Upon leaving school he entered the ser- 
 vice of the Pitman Manufacturing Company, estab- 
 lished and owned by his father, where he mastered 
 the details of the management of the business. 
 Upon the death of his father, in 1S83, he became 
 President and Manager of the company, in the con- 
 duct of whose affairs he has been highly successful. 
 
 CHARLES F. PITMAN. 
 
 Mr. Pitman is a Director of the Laconia National 
 Bank, Trustee of Belknap Savings Bank, and mem- 
 ber of the Finance Committee, member of the 
 managing board of the Trustees of the Laconia 
 Hospital, and of the Executive Committee of the 
 Educational Society, and a Trustee of the Gale 
 Fund for the City Library and Park. He is Presi- 
 dent of the North Congregational Society, and a 
 Deacon of the church. He is a member of the New 
 Hampshire Society of the Colonial \^'ars. In poli- 
 tics Mr. I^itman is a Republican. He has never 
 sought public office, but he has always maintained 
 an active interest in all matters pertaining to the 
 welfare of the community. He is a liberal contri- 
 
 butor to worthy objects. He has a strong hold 
 upon the regard of all those with whom he comes in 
 contact, and is highly esteemed for his sound judg- 
 ment and executive ability. He has strongly devel- 
 oped literary and artistic tastes, and is the possessor 
 of a large and valuable library and many works of 
 art. Mr. Pitman married, October 15, 1890, Grace 
 Anna ^'aughan, daughter of O. A. J. Vaughan, a 
 well known member of the Bar. Mrs. Pitman was 
 educated at Mount Holyoke, is possessed of great 
 literary attainments, and is active in all social mat- 
 ters. They have had two children : Ruth Marion, 
 who died in infancy, and Charles Joseph, born Jan- 
 uary 22, 1895. 
 
 RAMSDELL. George Allen, Governor of New 
 Hampshire. The ancestors of Governor Ramsdell 
 were of English origin. Abijah Ramsdell, who 
 was born about 1695, came to this country in early 
 life and settled in Lynn, Massachusetts. He was 
 the immigrant ancestor of the family. The name 
 appears frequentl}' in the public records of that 
 town. Descendants from the original progenitor 
 settled in that vicinity and became a prominent and 
 highly respected class of citizens. Abednego 
 Ramsdell was among the slain at Lexington. On 
 the morning of that day he learned of the expedi- 
 tion of the British to Concord and immediately 
 started across the country in that direction. It is 
 probable that he arrived at Lexington in season to 
 meet the British troops in their retreat. He en- 
 gaged at once in the fight and was among the hrst 
 to fall. There were six others, brothers or near 
 kinspeople of this family, in the War of the Revo- 
 lution from the town of Lynn. Captain William 
 Ramsdell, the grandfather of Governor Ramsdell, 
 settled in Salem, Massachusetts, in early life and 
 engaged in East Indian trade. The prominent po- 
 sition of the merchants and " seafaring " men from 
 Salem in the period succeeding the Revolution is 
 historic. Their ships " went down to the sea," and 
 visited the Indias and returned laden with the val- 
 uable and varied products of that " wonderland of 
 spices and silks, of ivory and gold." For two gen- 
 erations certainly and perhaps three the ancestors 
 of Governor Ramsdell were extensively engaged in 
 the East Indian and Mediterranean traffic, sailing 
 their own vessels and those of other merchants. It 
 was a life of peril and hardship and those who fol- 
 lowed it were possessed of fortitude, strength and 
 endurance such as the modern mariner knows not 
 of. Captain William Ramsdell moved from Salem 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
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 to Milford, New Hampshire, in 1S15. He then 
 purchased the well-known farm situated upon the 
 main thoroughfare between that town and Wilton, 
 which has been the family homestead ever since 
 and is now owned by the Governor and his brother. 
 The father of Governor Ramsdell, the second Cap- 
 tain William Ramsdell, was bom in Salem and 
 came to Milford \\hen about twelve years old. He 
 became a leading and prominent citizen and was 
 largely influential in controlling the alTairs of the 
 town and to a considerable extent throughout the 
 county and state. He was conservative and firmly 
 fixed in his views in different departments of life, 
 social, religious, business and political, and his 
 strong personality was a potent influence in the 
 community where he lived, fn early life he fol- 
 lowed the same calling as his ancestors and for 
 several years was engaged in foreign trade, but in 
 1830 he settled down in the more quiet and less 
 eventful life of farming upon the old homestead. 
 Governor Ramsdell's mother was Maria Antoinette, 
 eldest daughter of Reverend Humphrey Moore, one 
 of the celebrated ministers of his time. Pastor of 
 the First Congregational church in Milford for 
 about forty years and well and widely known for 
 his ability and a rigid adherence to his orthodox 
 views. Her maternal ancestry is in lineal descent 
 from Lieutenant Francis Peabody, the progenitor 
 of the distinguished Peabody famiU' in this coun- 
 try, containing so many names of honor and re- 
 nown. Lieutenant Peabody was born in Hertford- 
 shire, England, and came to this country in 1635. 
 Ffe first lived in Ipswich, Massachusetts, then 
 Hampton, New Hampshire, and finally settled in 
 Topsfield, Massachusetts, where he died in 1697. 
 The maternal grandmother of Governor Ramsdell 
 was Hannah Peabody, the lineal descendant of 
 William, the third son of Lieutenant Francis Pea- 
 body. No more honored name has been written in 
 the history of our country, in the annals of war, in 
 the halls of legislation, in the courts of justice, than 
 the name of this distinguished family, and well may 
 those take a pardonable pride who can claim kin- 
 ship with so noble and worthy a man as George 
 Peabody, the philanthropist, whose fame for 
 princely charities is world-wide. In these brief 
 traces of ancestry we find those enduring traits of 
 character which from their positive and indestruc- 
 tible nature transmit themselves through successive 
 generations. George Allen Ramsdell was born in 
 Milford, New Hampshire, March 11, 1834, and 
 lived the uneventful childhood and boyhood days 
 
 upon the old farm. He attended the public and 
 High Schools in that town and acquired a good 
 English education before he was eighteen years of 
 age. He was then intending to adopt the profes- 
 sion of Civil Engineering but the depression in the 
 business of railroad building which occurred in 
 i852~'53 caused him to change his purpose and 
 adopt a different plan, and he decided to take a clas- 
 sical course of study with a view of entering some 
 college. He completed his preparatory course in 
 McCoUoni Institute at Mont Vernon, New Hamp- 
 shire, and entered Amherst College in 1853, where 
 he remained one year, but having in the meantime 
 concluded to begin the study of law innnediately 
 instead of remaining to complete the collegiate 
 term he entered the office of Hon. Bainbridge Wad- 
 leigh in Milford, where he remained two years and 
 then went to Manchester to continue the study in 
 the office of Hon. Daniel Clark and Hon. Isaac W. 
 Smith. In the fall of 1857 he was admitted to the 
 Par and soon after commenced business in Peter- 
 borough, New Hampshire. He was engaged in ac- 
 ti\'e practice there about six years, when the resig- 
 nation of Hon. E. S. Cutter, Clerk of the Supreme 
 Court, caused a vacancy in that office. Mr. Rams- 
 dell had already established the reputation through- 
 out the county as a trustworthy and efficient law- 
 yer and had developed the qualifications which that 
 important position required. The universal opin- 
 ion of the Bar seeiried to fix upon him with one 
 accord and the appointment was made. He then 
 moved to Amherst, where the county records were 
 located, but in 1866 they were transferred to 
 Nashua, where he removed and has since resided. 
 He held the office for twenty-three years, and be- 
 came widely known as one of the most thoroughly 
 informed and accomplished clerks in the country. 
 While the position of the Clerk of our Supreme 
 Court in many ways is one of a clerical character 
 it has gradually grown to include a much broader 
 if not more important class of duties. Its intimate 
 connection with the varied practice of the law by 
 the whole body of the profession makes a thorough 
 knowledge of the system in all its details of inesti- 
 mable value and it has come to be regarded by the 
 Court as well as the members of the Bar as of great 
 importance. His term of office was mainly during 
 that period when such men as Hon. George W. 
 Morrison, Judge C. W. Stanley, Chief Justice Lewis 
 W. Clark, Hon. George Y. Sawyer, Judge A. W. 
 Sawyer, General A. F. Stevens, Attorney Generals 
 Wm. C. Clark and Mason W. Tappan, United 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 States Senators Daniel Clark and Bainbridge Wad- 
 leigh, Hon. S. N. Bell and other eminfent lawyers 
 were in full practice ; and the court had such emi- 
 nent Chief Justices as Samuel D. Bell, Ira Parley, 
 Henry A. Bellows, J. Everett Sargent, Edmund L. 
 Gushing and Charles Doe, with Associate Justices 
 whose honored names upon the pages of our Judi- 
 cial History have given our court rank among the 
 ablest and most distingushed tribunals in the coun- 
 try. Constantly surrounded by such men and dis- 
 charging the varied duties which devolved upon him 
 under such circumstances afforded the means of an 
 education and a discipline rarely enjoyed. He was 
 often appointed to act as Auditor, Referee or Master 
 
 CEO. A. RAM^ilELL. 
 
 in Chancery, frequently in other counties, and prob- 
 ably tried more causes than any other lawyer 
 excepting fudges of the court, in the history of the 
 state. His eminent fairness and correct application 
 of the rules of law was universally conceded and 
 the integritv of his decisions \\'as never questioned. 
 His high reputation and acknowledged qualifications 
 for those important duties followed him after his 
 retirement from the office of Clerk and in 1893 he 
 was tendered the office of Associate Justice of the 
 Supreme Court, but owing to important interests in 
 other directions which he had become connected 
 with, he was obliged to decline the office, unfortu- 
 nately we believe, for he would easily have taken 
 
 high rank as a jurist and been able to have ren- 
 dered signal service in the place where above all 
 others the welfare of the people and the permanency 
 of our institutions can best be preserved. During 
 the time he has resided in Nashua Governor Rams- 
 dell has held many places of both public and priv- 
 ate trust and importance. For ten years he was a 
 member of the Board of Education and for twice 
 that time has been a Trustee of the Public Library. 
 In i869-'7o-'7i he was a member of the Legisla- 
 ture ; in 1876 a member of the Constitutional 
 Convention and in i89i-'92 a member of the 
 Executive Council. For five years he was President 
 of the Board of Trustees of the State Industrial 
 School at Manchester and has been for many years 
 a Trustee of the New Hampshire Orphans" Home 
 at Franklin. While residing in Peterborough he 
 became a member of the Masonic P^aternity and 
 after moving to Nashua received the grades of the 
 Scottish Rite to the Thirty-second degree inclusive. 
 He is a member of the First Congregational Church 
 in Nashua and has always been identified with the 
 Orthodox denomination although he is regarded as 
 very liberal in his views. He rendered that society 
 valuable service in building the stone church of the 
 parish, which is one of the best in the state. Gover- 
 nor Ramsdell is a pronounced advocate of the 
 cause of temperance and has been during his whole 
 life a total abstinent. He has always upheld the 
 prohibitory system in force in the state and whether 
 in private or public life has brought to bear upon 
 the condition of affairs concerning that most trou- 
 blesome and important question an intelligent and 
 decided influence. He is a staunch Republican 
 and although he has done less of the party work 
 than many others with whom he has been associated 
 his conservative and well-defined views, emphasized 
 always by great sincerity and strong convictions, 
 have made him a potent factor in the control and 
 general direction of the policy of the Republican 
 people in the state ; and while he has not sought to 
 interfere with the details of party management to 
 any great extent, his influence has been brought to 
 bear in favor of its more important propositions, 
 and his determined stand has frequently made its 
 impression upon party measures. He has never 
 engaged to any considerable extent in political can- 
 vassing but has occasionally made public addresses. 
 His style as a speaker is logical and argumentative 
 and alwa)'s characterized by fairness and an unex- 
 aggerated presentation of facts, and, emphasized by 
 his high character and personal merit, his efforts 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 have always been received with favor and respect. 
 Among the positions of pri\ate trust which he holds 
 may be enumerated President of the First National 
 Bank and I'reasurer of the City Guaranty Savings 
 Bank in Nashua, Director in the Nashua Manufac- 
 turing Company and the Jackson Company, the 
 leading industries of his city. He is also a Director 
 in the Wilton and Peterborough railroads. Gover- 
 nor Ramsdell married November 29, i860, Eliza 1). 
 Wilson, daughter of David Wilson of Deering, New 
 Hampshire, a descendant of one of the London- 
 derry emigrants. Her mother was Margaret Dins- 
 more, also a descendant of one of the Londonderry 
 settlers. They have four children, three of whom 
 reside in Nashua, and one is engaged in business 
 in Texas. Although he has been continuously in 
 business for over forty years it is a remarkable fact 
 that he has never been incapacitated for a single 
 day by sickness from the discharge of any duty, or 
 prevented from attending to whatever the occasion 
 reciuired. Governor liamsdell is not possessed of 
 great wealth but has a fair competency. He has 
 never engaged in speculations or taken the chances 
 by which men sometimes become rich and some- 
 times poor. \\'hat he has acquired has been by 
 honest ways and reputable business methods. 
 According to usual party methods his name was 
 suggested in connection with nomination for Gover- 
 nor in the convention of 1S92, and in 1S94 he was 
 one of the most prominent candidates. In 1S96 he 
 was made the party nominee with substantially no 
 opposition and was elected in November by a larger 
 majority than ever before received by any candi- 
 date, and by a larger vote than ever received in the 
 state by any candidate except President McKinley. 
 He was inaugurated January 5, 1S97. Governor 
 Ramsdell was peculiarly well fitted to enter upon 
 the discharge of the duties of Chief Magistrate. 
 His long and active service in the Legislature, his 
 term as member of the Council and his thorough 
 study of the affairs of the state, qualified him in an 
 unusual degree for the position and he was enabled 
 to take up the work as with a hand of long experi- 
 ence and familiarity. The first year of his admini- 
 stration was characterized by no unusual occurrence 
 but the present period is marked with events of an 
 important character. The war with Spain suddenly 
 coming upon the country has brought the various 
 states face to face with stern realities and called 
 upon the people to march to the front. But al- 
 though without reason to anticipate the situation 
 New Hampshire has in the quickest possible time 
 
 been brought to a "war footing" and more than 
 filled her quota and been among the first to get her 
 troops to the front. In the early days of the great 
 rebellion New Hampshire had a "War Governor " 
 who gained high reputation for his energy and 
 patriotism, and we of this day are equally fortunate 
 in having a Chief INIagistrate entitled to a stand 
 among the "War Governors" who by their executive 
 ability, prompt action and unfiinching discharge of 
 duty, enabled the Government to prosecute the War 
 with success and efficiency and which make certain 
 ultimate success. 
 
 SIDES, William O., Postmaster of Ports- 
 mouth, was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, 
 January 17, 1831, son of Nathaniel B. and Eliza- 
 beth (York) Sides. He is of English descent on 
 the paternal side, his grandfather having come to 
 this country from Great Britain. ( )n the maternal 
 side the family has been American for many gen- 
 erations. His parents removed from Exeter to 
 Kittery in his infancy, whence a few years later 
 they came to Portsmouth, where he acquired his 
 early education in the common schools. He com- 
 menced active life as a mule spinner in a cotton 
 mill, at which occupation he was employed for 
 several years, and then entered into business for 
 himself as a livery stable keeper in Portsmouth. 
 This business he followed successfully for four or 
 five years, until he abandoned it to enter the army. 
 On the breaking out of the Civil War, Mr. Sides 
 was the first man to enlist in the state of New 
 Hampshire, and was appointed by the Go\'ernor as 
 Recruiting Officer for the city of Portsmouth. In 
 this capacity he enlisted one hundred and five men 
 in five days. Although he had enlisted as a 
 private, he was promptly commissioned Captain of 
 the company thus raised, which became Company 
 K, Second Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers. 
 He went to the front in command of his company, 
 and participated in the first battle of Bull Run. On 
 the retreat following that disastrous engagement, 
 he met with quite a severe injury, on account of 
 which he soon after resigned his commission. Sub- 
 sequently he was appointed by the President to 
 a Captaincy in the Veteran Reserve Corps, and 
 assigned to the command of a Company that was 
 sent to Albany, New York, to enforce the draft. 
 From there he was sent to Elmira, New York, and 
 thence to Alexandria, Virginia, where he was 
 detailed in command of the patrol guard. He was 
 in service there for two months, when his condition 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 of health requiring a change, lie was relieved from 
 his compan}' at Alexandria and sent to Fortress 
 Monroe, and took charge of Ave companies where 
 he attended to the unloading from transports and 
 removing to the hospitals some five thousand sick 
 
 W. O. SIDES. 
 
 and wounded soldiers, shipping them North when 
 well enough to be removed to their homes. 
 Resigned and reappointed as First Lieutenant and 
 transferred to Fort Snelling, Minnesota, where he 
 remained until December, 1865, mustered out, June 
 30, 1866. Altogether he was in the service thirt)'- 
 four months. After a brief period of inactivity 
 and recuperation following his return home, Mr. 
 Sides went to Washington and served for a time 
 as Messenger in the House of Representatives. 
 While engaged in this capacity he received an 
 appointment as Inspector in the Boston Custom 
 House, where he served for three years, and was 
 then transferred to a similar position in the Ports- 
 mouth (New Hampshire) Custom House, in which 
 he continued for twelve years. On the nomination 
 of James G. Blaine for the Presidency, Mr. Sides, 
 always a strong Republican in politics, in association 
 with another gentleman, started a small daily paper, 
 the Penny-Post, in the interest of Mr. 151aine's can- 
 didacy. The subsequent defeat of the Republican 
 ticket and the accession of the Cleveland regime 
 resulted in the removal of Mr. Sides from his gov- 
 
 ernment office, and he at once turned all his atten- 
 tion and energies to his newspaper, which he 
 greatly enlarged and ran successfully throughout 
 the whole term of the Cleveland administration, 
 and the campaign that resulted in the election of 
 Harrison. \Mien President Harrison came into 
 office, Mr. Sides was appointed Postmaster of 
 Portsmouth, which position he filled until a change 
 of administration when he was again removed from 
 office by President Cleveland on the ground of 
 " offensive partisanship." Under the McKinley 
 administration he was promptly reappointed to the 
 Postmastership, taking office for the second time in 
 September, 1897. and in this capacity he continues 
 to serve with signal ability and satisfaction to the 
 general public. Mr. Sides cast his first Presiden- 
 tial vote for John P. Hale, the Free-Soil candidate, 
 and he has been a consistent and ardent Repub- 
 lican from the organization of the party. He has 
 been active and prominent in state and local 
 politics, and has served his city as Representative 
 to the General Court. He has also served as 
 Chairman of the Police Commission of the City of 
 Portsmouth, resigning this office to accept his post- 
 mastership reappointment. Mr. Sides is a member 
 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the 
 Knights of Pythias, in which latter organization he 
 has served as Vice-Grand Chancellor, Grand Chan- 
 cellor and Past Grand Chancellor. He was mar- 
 ried in 1858 to Margaret A. Badger; they have 
 four children; Antoinette C, Annie B., (now Mrs. 
 Garrett,) Grace A., and Walter Herman Sides. 
 
 TOWLE, Elias Irvinc, Merchant, Freedom, was 
 born in that town, April 16, 1845, son of Elias and 
 Lois (Swett) Towle. His grand-parents, Amos 
 Towle and Stephen Swett, came from Hampton, 
 New Hampshire, and were among the first settlers 
 of the town of Freedom. He was educated in the 
 common schools of his native town and in the sem- 
 inaries at Parsonsfield and Center Effingham, and 
 was graduated April i, 1866, from Bryant and 
 Stratton's Commercial College, Portland, Maine. 
 At an early age he entered his father's store as 
 clerk, also taking charge of his farm and general 
 business. May i, 1866, he commenced business 
 for himself, purchasing his father's store and stock 
 of goods. His father had been engaged in business 
 in the same place for thirty-five years. April i, 1878, 
 George I. Philbrick became his partner, forming the 
 company of E. I. Towle & Company, which still con- 
 tinues, and at the same time adding the manufacture 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 213 
 
 of clothing. Since iSSo he has dealt quite exten- 
 sively in fancy steers and oxen, and has done a large 
 farming business. His father had been in the 
 lumber business for several years and on account 
 of ill-health gave up the business to him in 1874. 
 The company is known as Towle & Iveneson, and 
 does a business of from thirty to fifty thousand 
 dollars yearly. ]\fr. Towle was chosen Trustee of 
 the Ossipee Valley Ten Cent Savings bank of P'ree- 
 clom, ^fay 11, 1S70, and four years later was chosen 
 Assistant Treasurer, and December 29, 1881, he was 
 elected Treasurer. He has been Town Clerk and 
 was a member of the General Court in 1893. He is 
 a member of Carroll Lodge of ]\fasons, No. 56 ; 
 Carroll Chapter, No. 23, Royal Arch Masons ; Cal- 
 vin Topliff Chapter, Order of Eastern Star ; is an 
 Odd P'ellow, member of Prospect Lodge, No. Si ; 
 Mt. Chocorua Encampment, No. 32 ; Sunset 
 Rebekah Lodge, No. 52, and Freedom Grange and 
 Carroll County Pomona Grange. He is a member 
 of the First Christian Societv of Freedom. In 
 
 E. I. TOWLE. 
 
 politics he is a Democrat. Mr. Towle was married 
 February 22, 1872, to Vesta Marcia Merrill. They 
 have one son: Harold Irving Towle, born April 3, 
 1887. 
 
 VARNEY, Fred Moulton, Banker, Somers- 
 worth, was born in Dover, New Hampshire, July 
 
 17, 1868, son of Benajah P. and Ann Lizzie (Moul- 
 ton) Varney. He attended the public schools of 
 Dover, and began his business career in banking 
 in this city in 1887. In May, 1S97, he was appoint- 
 ed Cashier of the Great ]'"alls National Bank at 
 
 F. M. varney. 
 
 Somersworth, succeeding J. H. Stickney, who was 
 murdered by Joseph E. Kelley, April 16, 1S97. 
 Mr. Varne)' is prominent in Masonry, and is a 
 member of the Strafford Lodge, Ancient Free and 
 Accepted Masons; of Belknap Chapter, Royal Arch 
 Masons ; of Orphan Council, Royal and Select 
 Masters ; of St. Paul Commandery, Knights Tem- 
 plar. He is a member of Olive Branch Lodge, 
 Knights of Pythias ; the Benevolent and Protective 
 Order of Elks, and the Knights of Ancient Essenic 
 Order, all of Dover. He was married December 
 12, 1893, to Rosalind B. Johnson. They have one 
 child; Harold Johnson Varney. 
 
 BARTLETT, John Paige, Manchester, was 
 born in Weare, February 4, 1841, son of John and 
 Lurena (Bailey) Bartlett. He attended the Acad- 
 emies of Francestown, Meriden, and Mont Ver- 
 non, and subsequently was a student at Dartmouth 
 College, being graduated in the class of 1864. He 
 studied law with Morrison, Stanley & Clark at Man- 
 chester. His first active practice was in the West, 
 where he was Commissioner of the United States 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 Circuit Court in Dakota, iS67-'6S. He removed 
 to Nebraska, wliere he became leader in liis profes- 
 sion, and was cliosen City Solicitor of Omaha, 
 i869-'7i. In 1874 he returned to the East, and 
 opened an office in Manchester, where he quickly 
 
 JOHN p. HARTLETT. 
 
 came to the front, being chosen City Solic- 
 itor in 1S75, and appointed Judge of the Police 
 Court, i875-"76. Mr. liartlett has been very active 
 in politics, and has proved his ability as Chairman 
 of the Democratic State Committee in 1890 and 
 1892. He is a member of the Amoskeag Xtt- 
 erans ; a Mason, having been Master of Washing- 
 ton Lodge, and has held high positions in the 
 Eienevolent and Protective ( )rder of Elks. He was 
 first President of the Granite State Club. He was 
 one of the organizers of the Southern New Hamp- 
 shire Ijar Association. Mr. liartlett, during his 
 residence in the West, was the first President of 
 the Bar Association at Cheyenne, \'\'yoming, a posi- 
 tion to which he was elected in 1867 ; and he was 
 the first attorney to be admitted to the Bar in the 
 state of Nebraska. He was a member of the state 
 Senate in 1895. 
 
 In the course of his career he has managed the 
 United States Senate restaurant at Washington 
 (being appointed by \'ice-President Wheeler in 
 1877 and retaining the management for five years) ; 
 the Putnam House, Palatka, Florida ; the Eastman 
 Hotel, Hot Springs, Arkansas ; the Raymond and 
 Whitcomb Grand, Barron's Suburban Hotel and 
 the Harvard Hotel. Chicago ; the Twin Mountain 
 House, Fabyan House, and Mount Pleasant House, 
 White Mountains ; the Senter House, Centre Har- 
 
 l^.ARRON. Oscar G., Manager of the Quincy 
 House, Boston, was born in Quechee, Windsor 
 county, Vermont, October 17, 1851, son of Asa T. 
 and Clarissy (Demmon) Barron. He received his 
 education in the schools of Quechee, Springfield, 
 White River Junction, \\'illiston, Fairfax, and Poult- 
 ney, Vermont. His lifelong occupation has been 
 hotel keeping, with e\ery department of which he 
 is thoroughly acquainted, and in the pursuit of 
 which he has made an almost unrivalled success. 
 
 O. G. HARRON. 
 
 bor. New Hampshire ; and the Quincy House, Bos- 
 ton. For thirty years he has been engaged in the 
 summer hotel business, having gone to the Twin 
 Mountain House in 1868. He became manager of 
 Fabyan's in 187S. Probably no White Mountain 
 hotel landlord is more widely known, and more gen- 
 erally popular. In addition to his private business 
 he has devoted much time to public affairs. He 
 served the town of Carroll as Selectman for eight- 
 een years, and in 188S, 1890, 1895 and 1896 as 
 Representative in the Legislature. Governor Saw- 
 yer appointed him a Colonel on his Staff. Mr. Bar- 
 ron is a member of White Mountain Lodge of 
 Masons, Whitefield; North Star Chapter, Lancas- 
 ter ; St. Gerard Commandery, Littleton ; Edward 
 A. Raymond Consistory and Rose Croix, Nashua; 
 Aleppo Temple of the Mystic Shrine, Boston ; and 
 the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 215 
 
 Boston. He married, May 16, 1872, Jennie Lane 
 of Montpelier, Vermont, and lias one daugliter : 
 Maude Lane Rarron. 
 
 CAIN, J. Leavitt, Pli3'.sician, Newport, was 
 born in Goshen, New Hampshire, September 26, 
 1S59, son of George W. and Cynthia J. (Leavitt) 
 Cain. His father, a native of Unity, New Hamp- 
 shire, was a dry goods merchant for many years, 
 and afterwards a farmer ; he has now retired and 
 lives in Newport. Doctor Cain was brought up on 
 a farm, and attended the district school, and later 
 Kimball Union Academy. In 18S3 he was gradu- 
 ated from the Medical Department of Dartmouth 
 College, and the following year took a post-gradu- 
 
 .M 
 
 J. LEAVITT CAIN. 
 
 ate course in New York city. He first settled in 
 Grantham, in 1S84, remaining five years, when he 
 removed to Newport. He is one of the foremost 
 physicians of the county, and has a fine practice. 
 He is a Mason, a member of Mount A'ernon Lodge 
 and of Sullivan Commander)' at Claremont. In 
 politics Doctor Cain is a Democrat, but has been 
 too actively engaged in his profession to seek any 
 office. 
 
 COLLINS, Charles S., Physician and man of 
 affairs, Nashua, was born in Grafton, New Hamp- 
 shire, in April, 1853, son of W. S. and Harriet W. 
 
 (Colby) Collins. His fatlier was a successful phy- 
 sician, and his mother was a member of the well 
 known Colby family of Warner. Charles S. Collins 
 was educated at Colby Academy, New London, 
 from which he was graduated with honors in 1872, 
 and at lioston University. After graduating in 
 medicine, he settled in Nashua, where he was joined 
 by his father in a large and most successful prac- 
 tice. Doctor Collins soon proved that he was gifted 
 with extraordinar)- business instinct, and as a diver- 
 sion from labor, took ujj, developed, and finally 
 established the most successful business in mineral 
 water ever known in America. It was through his 
 energy and sagacity that the name of Londonderry 
 Lithia Water was made a houseliold word. The 
 advertisements he designed were unique and con- 
 vincing, always abounding in fresh ideas that made 
 them notable. Indeed, Doctor Collins is every- 
 where recognized as a "past master in the art of 
 advertising, and lie is also a very clear and incisive 
 writer on general subjects, impressing his vigorous 
 individuality upon the products of his pen. Another 
 of his divertisements has been politics. In 1S81, 
 
 C. S. COLLINS. 
 
 Doctor Collins consented to enter the can^■ass for 
 the Senate against the Hon. D. A. Gregg, one of the 
 strongest candidates in the district. The campaign 
 was managed by the Doctor himself, and was made 
 notable by many new departures in the game of 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 politics, and by the Doctor's victon' by one major- 
 ity over the combined Democratic and Prohibition 
 votes. He was elected to the Legislature in 1SS7, 
 and introduced the first police commission bill, 
 making a most vigorous fight for its enactment. 
 The measure passed its third reading, and was de- 
 feated only by filibustering in the closing hours of 
 the session. Doctor Collins was for many years 
 a member of the local Health Board, and was ap- 
 pointed by Governor Busiel to the State Board of 
 Health, a position he still holds. He is a member 
 of the American Public Health Association, a Ma- 
 son, Odd Fellow, Knight of Pythias, and belongs to 
 a number of clubs. He is now retired from active 
 business. 
 
 cial operations. To banking he ga^-e the best years 
 of his life, and as a banker he was eminently suc- 
 cessful. He organized and brought to high stand- 
 ing the Amoskeag Bank, the Amoskeag Savings 
 Bank, the Amoskeag National ]5ank, and the Peo- 
 
 CURRIEI^, Moody, of Manchester, Thirty-eighth 
 Governor of the State of New Hampshire, was born 
 in Boscawen, New Hampshire, April 22, 1806. His 
 boyhood, in its cares and duties, its pleasures and 
 opportunities, was that of a t\'pical lad on a typical 
 New England farm ; but the success of the career 
 to which it was the prelude was greater than that 
 which has fallen to man)- of the successful men 
 who have gone from the farm to gain distinction in 
 other walks of life. His schooling was of necessity 
 slender, but the bo)' was of studious tastes and 
 steadfast resolve ; he gave his evenings and other 
 leisure hours to his books, and after a few months 
 at Hopkinton Acadeni}', was able to enter Dart- 
 mouth College, where he was graduated in the class 
 of 1834, with the honor of deli\ering the Greek 
 oration. Upon leaving college, Mr. Currier, follow- 
 ing the almost invariable custom of those times, 
 devoted himself to teaching, first at Hopkinton 
 Academy, and afterwards in the High School at 
 Lowell, Massachusetts. As an instructor he acquitted 
 himself with credit, but his ambition being for a 
 more permanent profession and wider field of action, 
 he made choice of the law, as better suited to his 
 tastes and inclinations, and opening into fields of 
 higher and broader activities. Having read the 
 preparatory course during his spare hours while 
 teaching, he was ready to enter at once upon the 
 profession, fn iS4i,he removed to Manchester, 
 where he was admitted to the Bar, and soon found 
 himself in a large and profitable business. For 
 several years he remained in practice, but the 
 rapidly developing manufacturing city offered finan- 
 cial possibilities and opportunities for congenial and 
 profitable business enterprises which led him grad- 
 ually to abandon his practice, and engage in finan- 
 
 .MUOIJV CURRIKR. 
 
 pie's Savings Bank ; and in addition to these under- 
 takings he entered into and managed many other 
 enterprises, in the conduct of which his wisdom 
 and ability were repeatedly demonstrated. In poli- 
 tical life Mr. Currier was speedily advanced to posts 
 of trust and honor. He was Clerk of the State 
 Senate in 1843, and a member of that body in 1856 
 and 1857, being chosen its President in the latter 
 year. As a member of the (lOvernor's Council, in 
 1S60 and 1 86 1, he performed most acceptably the 
 heavy duties involved in the raising and equipping 
 of troops to fill the state's quota in the Union army. 
 He was elected Governor in 1884, and inaugurated 
 in June of the following year, serving for two 
 years with distinction and honor. Governor Cur- 
 rier's early love of books never waned, and busy as 
 his life had been, he was ever a student. He was 
 versed alike in the love of antiquity and in mod- 
 ern literature, was master of many tongues, and 
 devoted much time and thought to natural sciences 
 and the theological discussions of the day. As 
 Governor, his proclamations and other state papers 
 attracted great attention, not only for their subject 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
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 matter, but also for the literary qualities they pos- 
 sessed, qualities displayed even more strikingly in 
 the poetic works Mr. Currier has given to the pub- 
 lic. Among his best known poems are the "Eter- 
 nal One," "Questions of Life," "The Old Man of 
 the Mountain," and many others, while he pub- 
 lished for private circulation charming books of 
 polished and felicitous verse. The degree of LL.D. 
 was conferred upon him by Dartmouth and by 
 Bates College. Mr. Currier was thrice married. 
 He died at his home in Manchester August 23, 
 1898. 
 
 HAINES, John Nowell, Manufacturer, Somers- 
 worth, was born in that town, June 15, 184S, son 
 of John L. and Theodata (Nowell) Haines. He 
 comes of good old New England stock, and some of 
 his mother's ancestors took part in the Revolution- 
 ary War. He was educated in the common schools 
 of his native town and at the High School in Great 
 Falls, from which he was graduated in 1866. Later 
 he attended Dummer College, Bylield, Massachu- 
 
 J. N. HAINES. 
 
 setts, graduating in 1869. The following year he 
 engaged as ship's yeoman on the United States 
 Steamer Plymouth, which conveyed back to his na- 
 tive state the remains of the philanthropist, George 
 Peabody. In 1880 he became engaged in the bus- 
 iness of cotton waste and wiping stock, and this he 
 
 still carries on. He was Selectman of Somers- 
 worth in i885-'86, and County Commissioner in 
 i893-'96. He is a Mason, a member of Lybanus 
 Lodge, No. 49, of Somersworth, and Dover Lodge 
 of Perfection ; Brothers Lodge Knights of Pythias 
 of the same place, and Dover Lodge of Elks. He 
 is Grand Chancellor of the Kniglrts of Pythias for 
 New Hampshire. In politics Mr. Haines has 
 always been a Republican. In January, 1880, he 
 married Matilda Page. They had one daughter : 
 Pauline Haines, now deceased. 
 
 HUMPHREY, John, Manufacturer, Keene, was 
 born in Lyndon, Vermont, October 12, 1834, son 
 of John and Mary (Putnam) Humphrey. He is of 
 English descent, being in the eighth generation 
 from Jonas Humphrey, who came from Wendover, 
 Bucks county, and settled in Dorchester, Massa- 
 chusetts, in 1637. The place which he purchased 
 the day after his arrival, is still in possession of his 
 descendant in the tenth generation. Mr. Humphrey 
 received his education in the common schools in 
 Lyndon and in Rindge, New Hampshire, and later 
 spent two years in the Melville Academy at Jaffrey. 
 From twelve to fifteen years of age he was em- 
 ployed in a wooden ware factory at Rindge, and at 
 sixteen took a position as clerk in a store. Return- 
 ing to his former business, he was employed in 
 Nelson, New Hampshire, until he was eighteen, 
 when he invented a machine, and after engaging 
 for a time in its manufacture, at Harrisville, rented 
 a building and went into business for himself. At 
 twenty-one he formed a partnership with Charles 
 Buss of Marlborough, but the enterprise was not 
 successful and ended after one year. In 1856 he 
 removed to Keene, was employed by H. L. Haynes 
 in the machine business until the spring of 1859, 
 when he went to White River Village to put up a 
 machine manufactory there. Becoming interested, 
 he went into business in the town but after two 
 years a disastrous lire compelled him to retire with 
 no assets. His former employer at Keene, having 
 assigned, Mr. Humphrey was asked to return and 
 buy out the factory. This he did, in June, 1861, 
 and has continued there ever since, with many 
 enlargements to the business. Until 1872 he en- 
 gaged extensively in making shoe peg machines, of 
 which he made more than any other factory, and 
 other wood working machinery. At present, the 
 business consists mainly in manufacturing water 
 wheels. In 1873, the business was incorporated as 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 the Humphrey jNIachine Compaii)-, and still bears 
 that name. In that _vear he began making turbine 
 water wheels, under the name of I. X. L. Turbine 
 Wheel, which is considered by those familiar with 
 it, the most economical and serviceable wheel in 
 the market. INIr. Humphrey was a member of the 
 Legislature in i868-'69, County Commissioner in 
 
 JOHN HUM FH REV. 
 
 i87o-'73, and Water Commissioner in i869-'89. 
 He is a member of the American Society of Me- 
 chanical Engineers. In politics he is a Republi- 
 can. He married in 1855, Eunice D. Gilson of 
 Plymouth, who died in January, 1890, leaving four 
 daughters : Mary Etta, who died in November, 
 1894; Harriet M., Mabel C, and Emmogene E. 
 Humphrey. He was again married May 16, i8gi, 
 to Mrs. Eliza J. (Howard; Rice of Warren, Massa- 
 chusetts. 
 
 JONES, Fr.\nk, E,\-Congressman, Capitalist, 
 and Brewer, Portsmouth, was born in Barrington, 
 New Hampshire, September 15, 1832. He attended 
 the common schools, and at the age of seventeen 
 was engaged in the hardware and tin business in 
 Portsmouth. He soon became a partner in the 
 firm, and later sole proprietor of the establishment. 
 From this beginning is traced a career that was one 
 
 business ability have won for themsehes fortune 
 and high rank in the community. In 1858 Mr. 
 Jones became interested in the brewing business, 
 which under his management has been developed to 
 the first rank among the brewers of America. He 
 has been closely identified with banks, railroads, 
 and other great corporations. He is a Director 
 of the Lancaster Trust Company ; of the Wolf- 
 boro Loan lV' Banking Company, and of the 
 National Bank of Portsmouth ; President of the 
 Portsmouth & Dover Railroad ; of the Granite 
 State Fire Insurance Company ; the Portsmouth 
 Fire Association, and the Portsmouth Shoe Com- 
 pany. For many years he devoted much of his 
 time to the active duties of the Presidency of the 
 great Boston & Maine Railroad. He is much inter- 
 ested in hotel property, and is proprietor of " The 
 Rockingham " at Portsmouth and the " Wentworth " 
 of Newcastle, two of the most famous hostelries in 
 New England, built from structures of his own 
 design, and erected and equipped under his own 
 direction. In politics Mr. Jones has for several 
 years been a leader of the New Hampshire Denioc- 
 
 FR.^NK JONES. 
 
 racy. He was twice elected Mayor of Portsmouth, 
 and was a member of the Forty-fourth and F'orty- 
 fifth Congresses. His homestead property known 
 
 of the most successful in the records of New Eng- as " The Farm," about a mile from the Rocking- 
 land's self-made men, who by energy, foresight, and ham, of one thousand acres, enclosed with its 
 
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 hedges, charming grounds, and conservatories, and 
 other appendages, is by his courtesy called the 
 " Public Garden of Portsmouth." 
 
 HALE, William Samuel, Manufacturer, Keene, 
 was born in Dublin, New Hampshire, May 17, 
 1854, son of Samuel Whitney and Emelia M. (Hay) 
 
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 Hale. His grandparents were Joseph Fitch and 
 Nancy Sanders Hay of Dublin, and Samuel and 
 Salome Whitney Hale of Fitchburg, Massachusetts. 
 The famil}' has long been prominent in New 
 Hampshire, and his father was honored with an 
 election as Governor of the state. William S. Hale 
 was educated in the High School at Keene, and at 
 Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, where 
 he fitted for Yale. He was graduated from college 
 in the class of 188 1. In the following year Mr. 
 Hale began his business career as a manufacturer 
 and has carried on a successful business ever since. 
 In politics he is a Republican. Mr. Hale married 
 October 10, 1883, I-imma Wheeler Frost. They 
 have four children : Margaret, Samuel \^'hitney, 
 Josephine and Rufus Frost Hale. 
 
 PARSONS, William M., a veteran Physician of 
 Manchester, «'as born in Gilmanton, New Hamp- 
 shire, December 30, 1826, son of Josiah and Judith 
 (Badger) Parsons. Of the nine children of the fam- 
 
 ily, six became teachers, one a lawyer, and two 
 physicians. Josiah Parsons, the father, served as a 
 Lieutenant in the War of 181 2, and his father was a 
 Revolutionary soldier. In the paternal line, Doctor 
 Parsons's descent is traced from Joseph Parsons, 
 born in England, who emigrated to this country, 
 July, 1726, settling in Northampton, Massachusetts. 
 In the maternal line, he is descended from General 
 Joseph Badger, who served in the Revolution. 
 Doctor Parsons attended the common schools of 
 Gilmanton, and the Academy in that town. He 
 began the study of medicine with Doctor Nahum 
 Wight, with whom he remained for three years, at 
 the same time taking courses of lectures at Dart- 
 mouth Medical College. He also attended the 
 Vermont Medical College, from which he was grad- 
 uated in June, 1851. He began practice with his 
 brother. Doctor Joseph B. Parsons, with whom he 
 remained until 1855. Subsequently, after practic- 
 ing in Barrington for nine years and Antrim for 
 fifteen. Doctor William Parsons removed to Man- 
 chester in April, 1873, and there he Jias ever since 
 been engaged in the active practice of his profes- 
 
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 W. M. PARSONS. 
 
 sion. He was appointed in 1881 Chairman of the 
 Committee for the extermination of pleuro-pneu- 
 monia among cattle, a disease prevalent at that 
 time, and his efforts were remarkably successful. 
 He was made Assistant Surgeon in the First Regi- 
 
220 
 
 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 ment New Hampshire National Guards, in 1883, 
 and in 1884 was promoted to Surgeon. He was a 
 member of the state Legislature from Barrington in 
 1872-73. He is a Thirty-second degree Mason, 
 an Odd Fellow, a member of the Knights of Honor, 
 and an Elk. He married in November, 1882, Mar- 
 ion J., only daughter of the Hon. John and Doro- 
 thea (Jones) Hosley. He has one child : Martha 
 €., born April 30, 1884. In his nearly one-half 
 century of practice, Doctor Parsons has gained a 
 reputation as one of the most successful physicians 
 and surgeons of the state ; and he has been a pre- 
 ceptor for a very large number of students, who 
 subsequently have attained success in their profes- 
 sion. 
 
 PILLSBURY, Parker, one of the heroes of 
 New England's famous "Abolition Trinity " (Garri- 
 son, Phillips, Pillsbury) and its last survivor, who 
 for nearly half a century, in perils and hardships, 
 devoted himself heart and soul to pleading the 
 cause of the oppressed, denouncing iniquitous, 
 superstitious, bigoted laws and practices, and de- 
 manding the removal of the yoke that held the 
 colored race in cruel bondage, was born in Hamil- 
 ton, Essex county, Massachusetts, September 22, 
 1809. He was the son of Deacon Oliver and Anna 
 (Smith) Pillsbury, and the eldest of a family of 
 eleven children. His father, a native of Newbury, 
 Massachusetts, son of Parker, first, and Sarah 
 (Dickinson) Pillsbury, was of the sixth generation 
 in descent from William Pillsbury, who married 
 Deborah Crosby in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 
 1 641, and afterward settled in Newbury, the line 
 being as follows : William's son Moses, his grand- 
 son, Moses, Jr., and his great-grandson, Moses 
 third, who married Mary Parker, and was the 
 father of Parker Pillsbury first. Oliver Pillsbury, 
 when four years old, was taken by his parents to 
 West Boscawen, now Webster, New Hampshire, 
 where he grew to manhood. At nineteen years of 
 age he returned to Newbury, Massachusetts, where 
 he learned the blacksmith's trade, and subsequently 
 completed his schooling at Dummer Academy. 
 Here he made the acquaintance of his future wife, 
 Anna Smith, daughter of Philemon Smith. They 
 were married December 8, 1808, and settled in 
 Hamilton, Massachusetts, where he worked at his 
 trade until 18 14. The hard times caused by the 
 war with England then led him to remove to a farm 
 in Henniker, New Hampshire, to buy which he 
 incurred a debt of $1,500.00. With the conclusion 
 
 of peace the price of farm produce fell, and to free 
 himself from this burden, cost many years of severe 
 toil. He was public spirited and religious, a 
 Deacon in the church, earnestly interested in tem- 
 perance, and in the abolition of slavery, and was 
 ever ready to lend a hand to local benevolent 
 enterprises. Oliver Pillsbury died in 1857. His 
 wife, a most estimable woman of strong character, 
 survived him about twelve years, retaining her 
 faculties to a marked degree at the advanced age 
 of ninety-four. Eight of their eleven children 
 survived the parents, namely : Parker, Josiah W., 
 (father of Albert E., Ex- Attorney General of Mas- 
 sachusetts) Gilbert, Oliver, Jr., Eliza A., Harriet, 
 Mary S., and Moses D. Parker Pillsbury, the Radi- 
 cal and the Reformer, obtained such education in 
 his boyhood as was afforded by the district schools 
 of Henniker, but always had to help in the work of 
 the home farm. When about twenty years old, he 
 was employed in driving an express wagon from 
 Lynn, Massachusetts, to Boston. Subsequently hp 
 returned to Henniker, and devoted himself to farm- 
 ing. Becoming zealously religious, he was urged 
 to prepare himself for the ministry. Acting upon 
 this advice, he pursued a course of study at Gil- 
 manton, New Hampshire, and at the Andover 
 Theological Seminary. " In less than four years 
 from the reaper and the plough " he was licensed 
 to preach by the Suffolk Association of Boston, and 
 was settled over the Congregational " Meeting- 
 house " Society for a year, iS39-'4o, at Loudon, 
 New Hampshire. But as the Christian Church was 
 at that time "the bulwark of American slavery," 
 as William Lloyd Garrison truly said, it could not 
 and would not tolerate Parker Pillsbury. In the 
 pulpit he was deeply sincere, earnest, and scathing 
 in his denunciation of that " sum of all villainies," 
 human slavery. Inasmuch as his whole moral 
 nature had been roused against that institution, by 
 the fearful outrages which were being perpetrated 
 upon the abolitionists, he abandoned the Christian 
 ministry, and espoused the anti-slavery cause in 
 1840 as a working apostle. His first lecture on 
 the subject of slavery was given in Fitchburg, 
 Massachusetts. After leaving the ministry, his first 
 anti-slavery work in New Hampshire was to con- 
 duct the " Herald of Freedom " for a time in the 
 absence of the editor, Nathaniel P. Rogers. Then 
 as he says, he entered "the lecture field with the full 
 resolve to see the overthrow of the Southern slave 
 system or perish in the conflict." There he stood 
 with Garrison, Phillips, Rogers, Fo.ster, Higginson, 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 and other heroic 
 describes him : 
 
 leaders as James Russell Lowell 
 
 " Beyond, a crater in each eye, 
 Sways brown, broad-shouldered Pillsbury, 
 Who tears np words like trees by the roots, 
 A Theseus in stout cowhide boots. 
 The wager of eternal war 
 Against the loathsome Minotaur, 
 To whom we sacrifice each year 
 The best blood of our Athens here. 
 A terrible denouncer he. 
 Old Sinai burns unquenchably 
 Upon his lips ; he well might be a 
 Hot blazing soul from fierce Judea, — 
 Habakkuk, Ezra, or Hosea, — 
 His words bum as with iron searers.'' 
 
 And this strong man, " who looked daggers but 
 never used one," never tlinched, in the face of peril, 
 
 PARKER PILLSBURY. 
 
 detestation, and obloquy, "to dare for the right." 
 The great work of Parker Pillsbury, and the esteem 
 in which he was held by his fellow laborers in this 
 truly heroic period of the I^epublic, ma}- be judged 
 from the following citations : " Could you know him 
 and his history," wrote Wendell Phillips to Elizabeth 
 Pease, in 1853, "you would value him. Originally 
 a wagoner, he earned enough to get educated. 
 When just ready to be settled, the Faculty of Ando- 
 ver Theological Seminary threatened him that they 
 would never recommend him to a parish unless he 
 gave up speaking in anti-slavery meetings. He 
 
 chose us, and sacrificed all the benefits (worldly 
 and pecuniary) of his hard-earned education. His 
 course since has been worthy of this beginning." 
 William Lloyd Garrison wrote the following, just 
 after passing the three-score and ten milestone of 
 life : " Dear Friend Pillsbury — J did not mean that 
 a fortnight should elapse before answering your let- 
 ter, the receipt of which gave me much pleasure, 
 not alone because of the stirring memories of Auld 
 Lang Syne awakened by it, but also for its ver}' 
 kind and fraternal spirit. Your coming into the 
 field of conflict was specially timely, and displayed 
 on your part rare inoral courage and a martyr readi- 
 ness to meet whatever of religious obloquy, popular 
 derision, social outlawry, mobocratic violence, or 
 deadly peril, might confront you as the outspoken 
 and uncompromising advocate of immediate and 
 unconditional emancipation. For then the aspect of 
 things was peculiarly disheartening, a formidable 
 schism existing in the anti-slavery ranks, and the 
 pro-slavery elements of the country in furious com- 
 motion. But you stood at your post with the faith- 
 fulness of an Abdiel ; and whether men would hear 
 or forbear, you did not at any time to the end of the 
 struggle, fail to speak in thunder tones in the ear of 
 the nation, exposing its blood-guiltiness, warning it 
 of the wrath to come, and setting forth the duty of 
 thorough repentance and restitution. If you re- 
 sorted to a ram's horn instead of a silver trumpet, it 
 was because thus only, could the walls of our slave- 
 holding Jericho be shaken to their o\-erthrow, — you, 
 too, lia\'e seen of the travail of )'our soul, and may 
 well be satisfied, Laus Deo." Said Wendell Phil- 
 lips, in i860: '-We are charged with lacking fore- 
 sight, and said to exaggerate. This charge of 
 exaggeration brings to my mind a fact I mentioned 
 last month in Horticultural Hall. The theatres in 
 many of our large cities bring out, night after 
 night, all the radical doctrines and all the startling 
 scenes of ' Uncle Tom's Cabin.' They preach 
 immediate emancipation ; and slaves shoot their 
 hunters, to loud applause. Two years ago, sitting 
 in this hall, I was myself somewhat startled by the 
 assertion of my friend, Parker Pillsbury, that the 
 theatres would receive the Gospel of anti-slavery 
 truth earlier than the churches. A hiss went up 
 from the galleries, and many in the audience were 
 shocked by the remark. I asked myself whether I 
 could endorse such a statement, and felt I could 
 not. I could not believe it to be true. Only two 
 years have passed, and what was then deemed rant 
 and fanaticism, by seven out of ten who heard it, 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 has proved true. The theatre bowing to its audi- 
 ence, has preaclied immediate emancipation and 
 given us the whole of ' Uncle Tom,' while the pul- 
 pit is either silent or hostile, and in the columns of 
 the theological papers, the work is subjected to criti- 
 cism, to reproach, and its author to severe rebuke. 
 Do not, friends, therefore set down as extravagant, 
 every statement which 3'our experience does not 
 warrant. It may be that you and I have not studied 
 the signs of the times quite as accurately as the 
 speaker. Going up and down the land, coming into 
 close contact with the feelings and prejudices of the 
 community, he is sometimes a better judge than you 
 are of its present state." Mr. Pillsbury edited the 
 National Standard in 1S66. In 1S68 and 1S70, he 
 was the Editor, with Mrs. P.lizabeth Cady Stanton, 
 of the Revolution, a journal devoted to the cause 
 of Woman's Suffrage, and published in New York 
 city. Afterwards he was a lecturer for Free Reli- 
 gious Societies in Salem and Toledo, Ohio, Battle 
 Creek, Michigan, and other Western towns and 
 cities. Most of his time since the abolition of slav- 
 ery has been spent in the direction of radical reform 
 in religion and social economy. To this end he 
 has published numerous pamphlets, which, while 
 characterized by keen satire, are also full of a deep 
 sense of religious freedom and fellowship, means 
 which he believed were ultimately to unite mankind 
 in a Universal Scientific Religion. On January i, 
 1840, he married Sarah H. Sargent, daughter of 
 Doctor John L. and Sally (\^'ilkins) Sargent, of 
 Concord, New Hampshire. The home life of Mr. 
 Pillsbury was delightful and happy, the domestic 
 atmosphere in\igorating and wholesome. Mrs. 
 Pillsbury was born in Loudon, New Hampshire, 
 and was not only an ardent sympathizer with her 
 husband in liis anti-slavery work, but a helpmeet 
 in every sense. What ostracism she underwent in 
 social life because of her husband's and her own 
 opinion ! She withdrew from the church in which 
 her life was inwrought, rather than partake of the 
 Communion at the hands of a minister who sanc- 
 tioned the sla\-er)' of human beings. But she lived 
 to see the triumph of the cause for which she and 
 her de\'oted husband sacrificed so much. Mr. l^ills- 
 bury was one of the Trustees in charge of a fund of 
 $40,000, bequeathed in 1859, by Charles F. Hovey, 
 a philanthropic merchant of Boston, to be used in 
 behalf of anti-slavery, woman's rights, and other 
 reforms. E.xigencies of the Civil War and the 
 needs of the colored race made such demands on 
 this fund that the whole amount was expended be- 
 
 fore any of it could be devoted to its other purposes, 
 dear alike to its testator and to Mr. Pillsbury, among 
 them being the movement to secure lasting peace 
 among nations. Mr. and Mrs. Pillsbury always 
 made their home in Concord, New Hampshire. 
 They had but one child, Helen Buffum, who was 
 born June 14, 1843. She married Hon. Parsons 
 Brainard Cogswell, Ex-Mayor of Concord, and one 
 of New Hampshire's best-known journalists, and 
 the founder of The Daily Monitor. Parker Pills- 
 bury's most valuable contribution to historical liter- 
 ature is contained in his "Acts of the Anti-Slavery 
 Apostles," published in 18S3. A touching incident 
 which occurred, shows somewhat the appreciation 
 of the race which Mr. I^illsbury so nobly helped to 
 emancipate. On a beautiful day in the summer of 
 1897, a party of colored students from South Caro- 
 lina, headed by their President, called upon Mr. 
 and Mrs. Pillsbury, at their home in Concord. 
 They came to bless their aged benefactors, and to 
 pour out their plaintive songs of thanksgiving and 
 benediction upon the family ; the serene and benign 
 countenance of the wife and mother, happy in well- 
 doing, the strong but mellowed face of the hero 
 reformer, who had "dared to be right, dared to be 
 true," and who had felt that he had a "work that 
 no other could do." It was a picture good to look 
 upon, for it renewed one's faith in the potency of 
 ideas, and the ultimate triumph of right. Just a 
 year later, July 7, 1898, this reformer, hero, and 
 honest man, left this world, which is the better for 
 his having lived in it. 
 
 PELTON, Frank Bailey, Supervising Principal 
 of Public Schools, Littleton, was born in Lyme, 
 New Hampshire, April 23, 1872, son of David 
 Brewster and Mary Moore (Bailey) Pelton. He is 
 descended from good, old English stock. In a 
 recently published genealogy the 'Pelton family is 
 traced back to 1086 A. D. His great-grandfather, 
 Joseph Pelton, was a Revolutionary soldier and a 
 pioneer settler of Lyme. On the maternal side his 
 great-great-grandfather was a Major in the Con- 
 tinental Army in the Revolution and a settler of 
 Bath, New Ham]3shire. Professor Pelton received 
 his early education in the schools of Lyme and 
 Hanover. It was the ambition of his youth to be 
 graduated from Dartmouth, and though his means 
 were straitened, he pluckily set himself to the 
 task of making his ambition a fact. Without 
 instruttf)r or ad\iser he completed his preparatory 
 
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 223 
 
 studies, and in June, 1S89, he passed liis examina- 
 tions for admission to the college. During his 
 course at Dartmouth he supported himself by 
 teaching in winter and working in summer, and in 
 1893 was graduated with his class, receiving the 
 B. A. degree. He received his M. A. in 1896. 
 For a year after graduation he was Principal of the 
 High School at \Mlton, New Hampshire, and then 
 accepted his present position in Littleton. Under 
 his charge the schools of the town have progressed 
 steadily, and the number of pupils from other 
 places has increased. The schools have been 
 regraded and the High School curriculum now 
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 This school has graduates in Dartmouth, Smith, 
 Mt. Holyoke, Boston University, Boston Law 
 School, and Buffalo University. Through Pro- 
 fessor Pelton's efforts it has one of the best school 
 laboratories in the state. Littleton has twice shown 
 its appreciation of his work by substantial and 
 unsolicited increases in salary. He was President 
 of the Grafton County Teachers' Association in 
 1896-97, and a member of the State Board of 
 Examiners of Teachers in 1897. He is a member 
 of the Kappa Kappa Kappa Society, the Masons, 
 and the Coashauke Club. In politics he is a 
 Republican. He is unmarried. 
 
 STONE, Charles F., Ex-Naval Officer of Port 
 of Boston, Lawyer, Laconia and ALmchester, was 
 born May 2 i , 1843, ■''O" o^ Levi H. and Clarissa (Os- 
 good) Stone. lie is a great-grandson of Deacon 
 Mathias Stone, one of the early settlers of the town 
 of Claremont, whence his grandfather, John Stone, 
 with three of his brothers emigrated in 1794 to 
 Northern ^^ermont, being among the first settlers 
 of the town of Cabot, where they cleared up farms 
 and reared large families. John Stone had ten 
 children and of his seven sons, four became 
 Congregational ministers, Levi H., the second 
 son, being one of the number. Charles F. 
 Stone was the youngest of eight children by 
 the first wife of Levi H. Stone, and his mother 
 dying at his birth, he was inmrediately taken to the 
 home of his grandfather, John Stone, where he re- 
 mained until he reached manhood. His father was 
 a very able preacher and pulpit orator of the first 
 rank. He held a number of pastorates, the last 
 being at Pawlet. For two sessions he was Chap- 
 lain of the Vermont State Senate. He was a strong 
 Union man at the lime of the war and spoke at 
 many war meetings for the encouragement of en- 
 listments, his efforts being rewarded by the direct 
 results in rallying volunteers. The Reverend Levi 
 Stone was a Chaplain of the First \'ermont Regi- 
 ment, and four of his sons were in the Union ser- 
 vice during the war, — two of them were taken pris- 
 oners of war, one being confined at Libby and the 
 other at Andersonville. For several years after the 
 close of his last pastorate Mr. Stone was Agent for 
 the \'ermont Temperance Society. He died at 
 Castleton, in 1891, at the age of eighty-five years. 
 The boyhood of the subject of this sketch was 
 passed upon his grandfather's farm, where though 
 his educational advantages were necessarily lim- 
 ited, he won a \'igorous physicpie and where there 
 sprang up a determination to make a mark in the 
 world. At the age of twenty he started out strong 
 in the determination to acquire an education to 
 enter upon a profession. He attended the academy 
 of fiarre, Vermont, and for two years fitted for col- 
 lege, entering Middlebury in 1865, being graduated 
 in the class of 1869. He paid his own way at the 
 college, as he paid it at the academy. In the win- 
 ter he tautrht in the district school and also in sinsf- 
 ing schools. He was an excellent musician, natur- 
 ally, and from his nineteenth year until his voice 
 was weakened by an attack of pneumonia, a period 
 of twenty-live years, he was Director of a choir in 
 
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 one place or another. After his graduation from 
 college, he became a law student in the office of 
 Ex-Governor John \V. Stewart of Middlebury, and 
 at the same time served for a 3'ear as Principal of a 
 graded school of that place. In 1S70 he went to 
 Laconia, continuing the study of his profession in 
 the office of Hon. EUery A. Hibbard. He was ad- 
 mitted to the Bar in 1872 and was taken into part- 
 nership by the late George W. Stevens, a connec- 
 tion which continued for a year. P'or the next 
 seven years, Mr. Stone practiced alone, meeting 
 with much success, and devoting himself to his pro- 
 fessional labors. He formed a partnership with 
 Erastus P. Jewell in 1880, under the name of Jew- 
 
 C. F. STONE. 
 
 ell & Stone, which still continues. Mr. Stone was 
 reared as a Republican in politics. He was an 
 anti-slavery man, and all through the reconstruc- 
 tion period and some years later, he continued in 
 alliance with this party, although he took no active 
 part in the political affairs beyond the town organi- 
 zation. About twenty years ago, however, he be- 
 came dissatisfied with the Republican policy in 
 connection with financial and revenue matters, and 
 ceased his affiliations with the organization. Upon 
 the opening of the Presidential campaign in 18S0, 
 Mr. Stone took the stump for Hancock and Eng- 
 lish, and proved a most eft'ective campaign orator. 
 He was made Chairman of the Democratic State 
 
 Committee in 1882, to which position he was twice 
 re-elected. During all these years he continued 
 one of the most active members of the party cam- 
 paigners. He was a member of the State Legisla- 
 ture from Laconia in i883-'84, and again in 1887- 
 '88. At the former session he served upon the 
 Committees on National Afl^airs and Railroads, and 
 in the latter upon the Judiciary and State Normal 
 School Committees. In railroad fights of these 
 sessions, Mr. Stone took a prominent part. He 
 was commissioned Naval Officer at Boston, July 3, 
 1894, and upon the expiration of his term in the 
 spring of 1898, he resumed the practice of law in 
 this state, and opened a branch office of his law 
 firm in Manchester. At all times, Mr. Stone has 
 been greatly interested in educational affairs in 
 Laconia, and was a member of the Board of Edu- 
 cation and served as President of the Board ; for 
 two years he was a member of the Board of Trus- 
 tees of the State Normal School. Mr. Stone be- 
 came a Mason at the age of twenty-one. He is a 
 member of the Patrons of Husbandry, and belongs 
 to Laconia Grange, and Belknap County Pomona 
 Grange. He married, July 7, 1870, Minnie A. 
 Nichols of Sudbuiy, Vermont, who died September 
 22, 1875, leaving one daughter. Flora M. Stone. 
 Mr. Stone married September 12, 1896, Mrs. Isa- 
 bel Smith Munsey of Laconia. In religious mat- 
 ters, Mr. Stone is of the progressive and liberal 
 type and has long been connected actively with the 
 Laconia Unitarian church. 
 
 AMSDEN, Charles Hubbard, was born in Bos- 
 cawen. New Hampshire, July 8, 1848, son of Henry 
 H. and Mary (Muzzey) Amsden. After completing 
 his course in the public schools he attended Apple- 
 ton Academy, New Ipswich, New Hampshire, and 
 upon the completion of his studies he entered the 
 employ of his father in the furniture manufacturing 
 business, being placed in charge of his office. 
 During the vacation season of his early school-days, 
 and subsequently, he passed his time in the factory, 
 where he became familiar with the trade in all its 
 branches, as well as with the difficulties and annoy- 
 ances under which the workmen labored, an experi- 
 ence which afterwards served him in good stead, 
 enabling him to fully sympathize with them and 
 understand their position. In a short time a 
 co-partnership was formed under the firm name of 
 H. H. Amsden & Sons. The father and brother, 
 George H., died soon after, leaving Charles H. as 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 225 
 
 the sole survivor of the name. He made extensive 
 additions to the property from time to time as the 
 needs of the business required, and for more than 
 twent)' years conducted the most extensive furni- 
 ture manufacturing business in New England. He 
 was also largely interested in the lumber business, 
 the latter being conducted under the firm name of 
 John Whitaker & Company. He was one of the 
 organizers of the Concord Axle Company, and for 
 a time its President and largest stockholder. He 
 is at the present time a member of the Board of 
 Directors of the Granite State Plre Insurance Com- 
 pany, and the Portland & Ogdensburgh Railroad. 
 Bv reason of a combination of circumstances. 
 
 CHARLES H. AMSDEN. 
 
 reverses overtook him in the panic of 1893, at 
 which time he gave up business. Soon after, he 
 accepted the position of Deputy Naval Officer, 
 Boston, which relation he now sustains. Mr. 
 Amsden has always taken great interest in what- 
 ever contributed to the growth and prosperity of 
 the community. It was through his instrumentali- 
 ties that the developments at West Penacook were 
 carried out, resulting in the establishment of the 
 Concord Manufacturing Company's business at that 
 place and the extension of the Concord Street Rail- 
 way to Contoocook River Park, he giving the right 
 of way and selling a large tract of land at a nomi- 
 nal price. In i874-'75 he represented his ward in 
 
 the city of Concord on the Board of Aldermen, and 
 he was a member of the State Senate in 1883, and 
 candidate for Governor in 1888 and 1890. During 
 the World's Exposition in Chicago in 1892 he was 
 a member of the State Board of Commissioners 
 and President of that body. Upon the agita- 
 tion of the advisability of introducing water into 
 Boscawen from Great Pond, he was a strong advo- 
 cate of the project, believing it to be for the public 
 good. He was Chairman of the Board of Com- 
 missioners, and it was largely through his interest 
 that a precinct was formed and favorable action 
 taken towards installing the system and the work 
 carried on to completion, thus furnishing the town 
 of Boscawen, and that portion of Concord lying 
 north of the Contoocook river, with one of the best 
 systems of water supply to be found in the state. 
 Few men in the state have done more towards its 
 advancement, or are better known and more highly 
 respected. Although unfortunate in a material point 
 of view, Mr. Amsden still retains a wealth of 
 friends. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity, 
 being a member of Horace Chase Lodge of Pena- 
 cook, Mount Horeb Commander}' of Concord, and 
 Aleppo Temple of Boston. He was married Octo- 
 ber 29, 1870, to Helen A. Brown of Penacook. Of 
 this union there were born three children : Henry 
 Hubbard, born July 15, 1872 ; Mary Ardelle, born 
 January 31, 1878, died October 20, 1883 ; and 
 Ardelle Brown Amsden, born December 3, 1885, 
 died June 10, 1887. Mrs. Amsden died August 6, 
 1891. 
 
 REED, William J., of Park Hill, an official of 
 the United States Senate, was born in Westmore- 
 land, New Hampshire, March 17, 1841, son of John 
 and Eunice (Cobb) Reed. His great-grandfather, 
 Simeon Cobb, was a Captain of Infantry in the 
 Revolutionary War, and one of the earliest settlers 
 of Westmoreland ; his grandfather, Simeon Cobb, 
 2d, who was prominent in the affairs of the state, 
 and a Brigadier-General of state troops, built several 
 locks in the Erie Canal. His father, John Reed, a 
 railroad contractor, died in the West, when the sub- 
 ject of this sketch was but fourteen years old. Mr. 
 Reed attended the common schools of his native 
 town. Valley Seminary, and Westmoreland Semin- 
 ary. Upon his graduation he became a clerk for 
 J. W. Leonard of Park Hill, with whom he remained 
 for nine years. Subsequently he was engaged in 
 the produce business up to 1890. He has always 
 been an active Republican. For twelve years he 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 was a member of the School lioard of his native 
 town, talcing a keen interest in the welfare of the 
 schoo's. In 1878 he was elected to the Legislature, 
 and in the following year declined a renomination. 
 He was elected to the House in 1887 and 1889, and 
 to the Senate in 1S95. He has been an earnest 
 
 WM. J. REED. 
 
 supporter of William E. Chandler, and claims the 
 honor of being the only member of the Legislature 
 to vote for Mr. Chandler in three elections to the 
 LTnited States Senate. During the fifty-first Con- 
 gress Mr. Reed ser\ed as an official of the National 
 House, and during the fift)'-second as an official of 
 the Senate. In 1892 he was connected with a 
 wholesale produce house in Providence, but was 
 soon urged to return to Westmoreland and accept a 
 nomination to the State Senate. This he did and 
 in 1894 was elected to that body. Two years later 
 he resumed his Senate position in Washington. Mr. 
 Reed is a music lo\er, and a member of the District 
 Choral Society of Washington. He is a member of 
 the National and State Grange. He married in 
 1865 Pauline E. Griffin of Somerville, Massachu- 
 setts, who died (.)ctober 24, 1873. His second 
 wife, to whom he was married June 16, 1876, was 
 Lizzie Irene Waters, daughter of William and Caro- 
 line \^'aters of Millbury, Massachusetts. He has 
 one son : Wilfred G. Reed, born July lo, 1870, who 
 is an electrical engineer. 
 
 GOVE, Jesse Morse, Lawyer, Itoston, Massa- 
 chusetts, was born in \\'eare, New Hampshire, 
 December 11, 1852, son of Dana Buzzell and 
 Susan (Morse) Gove. He is of English descent, 
 his paternal ancestors coming to this country about 
 1642, and his maternal ancestors about 1636. He 
 was educated in the pri\'ate and public schools of 
 Lowell, Massachusetts. He studied law with his 
 father in Boston, and was admitted to the Bar, May 
 5, 1S75. Since this time, he has been in active 
 practice in Boston. In 1881, he was a member of 
 the Common Council of that city; in 1888 and '8g 
 a member of the Board of Aldermen, and in 1883, 
 1S84, and 1S85, a member of the Massachusetts 
 Legislature. He is a Mason and Knights Templar. 
 In politics Mr. Gove is a Republican, and was a 
 delegate to the National Conventions of his party 
 in 1884, 1888, 1892, and 1896. He married, 
 August 16, 1882, Agnes E. Ballantyne. They have 
 two children : Dana Ballantyne and Edward James 
 Gove. 
 
 HAR^'EY, Albion K. P., Physician, Somers- 
 worth, was born in Di.xfield, Maine, May 9, 1855, 
 son of Albert and Satira (Eastman) Harvey. His 
 father was the son of Daniel W. Harvey, one of the 
 pioneers of Oxford county. His mother was the 
 daughter of William Ea.stman, of Rumford, Maine, 
 also an Oxford county pioneer. His father was a 
 farmer, and enlisted in the Thirtieth Maine Regi- 
 ment in February, 1864, and received a mortal 
 wound in the battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, in 
 June, 1864. Doctor Harvey was educated in the 
 common schools until he was fourteen years of age, 
 when he attended Yarmouth and Hebron Acad- 
 emies, where he prepared for college. He was first 
 employed in a drug store in Boston for three years, 
 and then began the study of medicine with Doctor 
 H. C. Bradford, of LewLston, Maine. After three 
 years, he was graduated from the Chicago Homceo- 
 pathic Medical College, in 1884. Since then he has 
 taken five courses in the New York Post-Graduate 
 Medical School and Hospital, and still makes a 
 practice of going there every year. He began the 
 practice of his profession in Lewiston, in 1884, re- 
 maining there eleven years. In January, 1895, he 
 removed to Somersworth, where he has practiced 
 ever since. Doctor Harvey is a member of the 
 Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire Homoe- 
 opathic Medical Associations, of the Pioston Surgi- 
 cal Society, and the Somersworth Club. For two 
 years of his residence in Lewi.ston he was City Phy- 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 227 
 
 sician. In politics lie is an Independent, and in 
 religion a Congregationalist. He was married, No- 
 vember II, 1878, to Fanny G. Niles, of Canton, 
 Maine, the daughter of a soldier who fell in the 
 Civil M'ar. 
 
 HASLET, George W., Mill Superintendent, 
 Hillsborough, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, 
 October 24, 1S59, son of George and Eliza (Ham- 
 ilton) Haslet. His father was born in Hallowell, 
 Maine, and his mother in Searsmont, Maine. Mr. 
 Haslet was educated in the common schools of 
 Boston and of Somerville, Massachusetts. After 
 completing his education he entered the employ of 
 Rufus T. Frost & Company, dry goods commission 
 merchants of Boston, remaining with them three 
 years. In 1880 he went to Hillsborough and ac- 
 cepted a position as bookkeeper for the Hillsbor- 
 ough Woolen Mill. After a time he became Super- 
 intendent of the mill, which position he still occu- 
 pies. The mill employs about one hundred and 
 eighty hands, and manufactures woolen goods of all 
 grades. Mr. Haslet is Vice-President of the First 
 National Bank in Hillsborough, a member of the 
 School Board, Trustee of the Fuller Public Library, 
 and was for six 3''ears Fire Commissioner of the 
 town. He is a Thirt3--seconcl Degree Mason, a 
 member of Mount Horeb Commandery, Knights 
 Templar, and is the Secretary and Past Master of 
 Harmony Lodge of Hillsborough. He is a Con- 
 gregationalist, and in politics is a Republican. In 
 October, 1885, Mr. Haslet was married to Mary G. 
 Button, of Hillsborough, who died in February, 
 1887. 
 
 KNOWLTON, Edc.^r Jav, Postmaster and Ex- 
 Mayor of Manchester, was born in Sutton, New 
 Hampshire, August 8, 1856, son of James and 
 Mary F. (Marshall) Knowlton. His family is Eng- 
 lish, the family being traced back to 1500. A num- 
 ber of its members took an active part in the colo- 
 nies' successful .struggle for freedom. Mr. Knowlton 
 attended the common schools of Sutton, and in 
 1873, removed to Manchester, where he entered the 
 office of the Union as printer's devil. He worked 
 his way up through the mechanical department of 
 the paper, and became a reporter and finally City 
 Editor. In May, 1S80, he accepted the Managing 
 Editorship of the Lockport (New York) Daily Union 
 and Niagara Democrat, a weekly paper, holding the 
 position until he received a liberal offer from the 
 
 Manchester Mirror to become its City Editor. He 
 returned to the PTnion as its Cit)' Editor, in 1S84, 
 remaining with that paper until 1S90. He was the 
 first Secretary of the Manchester Board of Trade. 
 In 18S5, he was elected to the Legislature, and in 
 November, 1890, he was elected Mayor of Man- 
 chester, receiving a re-election two years later. His 
 popularity with the voters was shown by the fact 
 that he received the largest majority ever accorded 
 to a Democratic candidate for Mayor. He was ap- 
 pointed Postmaster in May, 1894. His administra- 
 tion of the office has been highly successful, and 
 under his direction the postal facilities of the city 
 have been greatly enlarged and improved. Mr. 
 Knowlton is a member of the Calumet Club of 
 Manchester, the Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, 
 Red Men, Ancient Order of United Workmen, and 
 Patrons of Flusbandry. Mr. Knowlton married, 
 November 2, 1880, Genevieve I. Blanchard. They 
 have two daughters : Bessie G. and Belle F. Knowl- 
 ton. 
 
 H. W. BOUTWELL. 
 
 QUIMBY, John Grant, Physician, Lakeport, 
 was born in Sandwich, New Hampshire, April 8, 
 1862, son of Joseph H. and Nancy J. (Fogg) 
 Quimby. He attended the common schools of 
 Sandwich, the New Hampshire Literary Institution, 
 and Nichol's Latin School of Lewiston, Maine, 
 
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 MEN OF PROGRESS. 
 
 from which he was graduated in 18S5. He be- 
 came a student in the Medical Department of Bow- 
 doin University, and attained his degree of M. D., 
 June 27, 1SS8. Until 1892 he was in practice in 
 Lakeport, but in that 3'ear he removed to New 
 Hampton, where he remained for two years. He 
 then returned to Lakeport, and has since practiced 
 medicine in that place. For three years he was 
 City Physician; since 1894 he has been County 
 Physician. He is a member of the Board of Edu- 
 cation, his term expiring in 1900. He is a member 
 of the New Hampshire Medical Society, and of the 
 Winnipesaukee Academy of Medicine. He is a 
 Knight of Pythias ; Past Chancellor Commander 
 and member of the Grand Lodge, and of J. A. 
 Greene Company, Uniform Rank Knights of Pyth- 
 ias ; of Mount Lebanon Lodge, Ancient Free and 
 Accepted Masons of Laconia ; of Pilgrim Com- 
 mandery, Knights Templar, and is a Thirty-second 
 Degree Mason. In politics he is a Republican. 
 Doctor Quimby was married June 28, 1888, to 
 Mary I. Davis. They have one child : Havene 
 May Quimby. 
 
 T. CARTER. 
 
 MOODY, William Henry Harrison, Retired 
 Manufacturer, Claremont, was born in that town. 
 May 10, 1842, the seventh son in a family of eleven 
 children. His father, Jonathan Moody, was a boot 
 
 and shoe maker, and was active in military affairs. 
 Mr. Moody at fourteen years of age was appren- 
 ticed to Russell W. Farwell, shoe manufacturer, of 
 Claremont, with whom he remained four years. In 
 1 86 1 he enlisted in Troop I, New England Cavalry, 
 and served some time. In the fall of 1862 he was 
 engaged as travelling salesman for a Boston shoe 
 house, and in 1867 was taken into partnership, the 
 firm becoming McGibbons, Moody & Radlin. 
 Although equipped with but small capital, by his 
 energy he made the business successful. He 
 became a partner in Crain, Moody & Rising, in 
 1873. This firm established a factory at Amoskeag 
 and Nashua, where they employed one hundred 
 hands, making shoes for the southern and western 
 trade. In need of larger quarters they removed to 
 Nashua a few years later, and there carried on 
 business successfully for seven years, at the close of 
 which time the firm of Moody, Estabrook & Ander- 
 son was reorganized. Under Mr. Moody's man- 
 agement the factory became one of the largest in 
 the country, doing a business of over two million 
 dollars annually. Impaired health caused his retire- 
 ment in 1896. In 1878 he bought what was known 
 as the Mann farm, about a mile south of Claremont 
 village, then containing eighty-seven acres. The 
 place, now known as Highland A^iew, has been 
 greatly enlarged, now contains six hundred acres, 
 and is one of the finest in Sullivan county, the 
 splendid residence being situated upon an emi- 
 nence commanding a wide sweep of country. A 
 beautiful winding drive connects it with the high- 
 way. Mr. Moody takes much pleasure in fine 
 horses, and has had as many as one hundred and 
 seventy-five at a time, included in the list being a 
 number of thoroughbreds and fast trotters. He is 
 known as a man of broad and liberal views, has 
 done much to advance the interests of Claremont, 
 and owns the Hotel Claremont, which cost one 
 hundred and twenty thousand dollars and is one 
 of the finest hotels in the state. He married Mary 
 A. Maynard, daughter of Levi P. and Lorana (Orr) 
 Maynard. 
 
 PEABODY, Charles A., Lawyer, New York, 
 was born in Sandwich, New Hampshire, July 10, 
 18 14, son of Samuel and Abigail (Wood) Peabody. 
 On the paternal side he is of Welsh descent. One 
 of his ancestors, Richard Peabody, was an officer 
 in the Revolution, who had a command at Ticon- 
 deroga and elsewhere. His maternal grandmother 
 was a descendant of Sir Matthew Hale. Mr. Pea- 
 
MEN OF PROGRESS., 
 
 229 
 
 body studied under private tutors at his father's 
 home, and at Wolfboro, Gilford, Tilton, and Gil- 
 manton. He tauglit in schools at Beverly, Massa- 
 chusetts, and Baltimore, Maryland, studied law at 
 Harvard, being graduated in 1837, and went to 
 New York in 1S39, where he entered upon the 
 active practice of his profession. Although a 
 strong Whig he took no active part in politics until 
 1855, when he helped to organize the Republican 
 party in the state of New York. In the same year 
 he was appointed Justice of the Supreme Court of 
 the state. The Governor of New York appointed 
 him State Commissioner of Quarantine ' in 1858, 
 and four years later President Lincoln made him 
 Judge of the United States Provincial Court for 
 Louisiana ; and he was appointed Judge of the 
 Criminal Court in New Orleans. In the following 
 year he became Chief Justice of the Supreme 
 Court of Louisiana. He was appointed United 
 States Attorney for the eastern district of Lou- 
 isiana in 1865. Although eighty-four years of age 
 Judge Peabody is still in the full vigor of his men- 
 tal powers, continues his practice, and visits his 
 office daily. He is a member of the Association 
 for the Reform and Codification of the Law of 
 Nations. He is a member of the Episcopal Church. 
 He has twice married, his first wife being Janelia 
 Caroline Livingstone, and his second, Maria E. 
 Hamilton, daughter of John C. Hamilton and grand- 
 daughter of Alexander Hamilton. 
 
 SALTMARSH, George Harrison, Physician, 
 Laconia, was born in Gilford, New Hampshire, 
 March 3, 1859, son of Thomas and Sallie (Gilman) 
 Saltmarsh. He was educated in the public schools 
 of his native place and at the New Hampton Insti- 
 tution. In 1879, he began the study of medicine 
 with Dr. William H. Rand of New Hampton and 
 after attending three courses of lectures at Dart- 
 mouth Medical College, was graduated November 
 13, 1883. Since May, 1884, he has practiced his 
 profession in Laconia. He is a member of the 
 New Hampshire Medical Society, being a member 
 of its Council, and of the Winnipiseogee Academy of 
 Medicine, of which he has been Secretary since its 
 incorporation in July, 1895. A paper on "Electri- 
 city in the Hands of the General Practitioner" from 
 
 his pen, was published in the Transactions of the 
 New Hampshire Medical Society in 1895. Dr. 
 Saltmarsh was a member of the New Hampshire 
 Legislature in 1895-1896. He is an Odd Fellow 
 and Knight of Pythias. He married July 23, 1891, 
 Mima, daughter of Lenoard R. and Mary C. Avery, 
 of Portland, Maine. They have two children : 
 Robert C. and Arthur Avery Saltmarsh. 
 
 A. 1). MAL'K. 
 
 WORCESTER, Joseph Hilliard, Lawyer, Roch- 
 ester, was born in Milton, New Hampshire, De- 
 cember 31, 1830, son of Isaac and Julia (Hilliard) 
 Worcester. He is of English stock, his ancestors 
 having emigrated to Massachusetts. Mr. Worces- 
 ter attended Rochester Academy, Pembroke Gym- 
 nasium and Brown University. For a time he tavight 
 school, subsequently reading law with Cyrus K. 
 Sanborn of Rochester, and being admitted to the 
 Strafford County Bar in 1864. In the summer of 
 that year he began a successful practice in Roches- 
 ter, where he has since remained. Mr. Worcester 
 is a Director of the Rochester National Bank ; a 
 member of the Bar Association of his part of the 
 state ; a Mason and an Odd Fellow. In politics he 
 is a Republican. 
 
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 Abbott, A. W. . 
 
 Abbott, Henry 
 
 Abbott, Oscar D. 
 
 Adams, Daniel S. 
 
 Albin, J. H. 
 
 Allen, James F. 
 
 Allison, G. A. 
 
 Amen, Harlan P. 
 
 Aniidon, C. [. 
 
 Amsden, C. li. 
 
 Annable, E. G. 
 
 Antlioine, I. G. 
 
 Bachelder, John 
 
 Bailey, W. W. 
 
 Baker, E. 
 
 Baker, H. M. 
 
 Barron, O. G. 
 
 Bartlett, Fremont D. 
 
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 Barton, H. A. 
 
 Batchelder, A. T. 
 
 Bean, Alfred E. 
 
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 Bellows, J. G. . 
 
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 Ijingham, E. F. 
 
 Bingham, Harry 
 
 Blair, Henry W. 
 
 Blood, Aretas 
 
 Bond, George S. 
 
 Bond, Herbert W. 
 
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 Bowker, C. H. 
 
 Branch, O, E. 
 
 Brennan, James F. 
 
 Briggs, James F. 
 
 Brown, E. R. 
 
 Plrown, O. S. 
 
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 Burnhani, H. B. 
 
 Burnham, Henry E. 
 
 Burns, Charles H. 
 
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 Carbee, S. P. • 
 
 Carter, G. T. ■ 
 
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 Conant, Henry E. 
 Conn, Granville P. 
 Co.x, Charles E. 
 Crane, J. S. 
 Currier, F. D. 
 Currier, Moody 
 Cutler, Geo. I. 
 Daley, Daniel J. 
 Davenport, J. L. 
 Davis, George M. 
 Davis, Samuel W. 
 Dearborn, Sairiuel G. 
 Dillon, M. A. 
 Donahue, John J. 
 Dort, Obed G. 
 Doyle, J. J. 
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 Dudley, Harry H. 
 Eastman, Charles F. 
 Eastman, P^dwin G. . 
 Eastman, J. R. 
 Edgerly, F. G. . . . 
 Elder, Charles B. 
 lildredge, PL Fisher 
 Ellis, Bertram 
 P^merson, C. F. 
 Emerson, James E. 
 P^mery, George H. 
 Emery, M. G. 
 Emmons, G. B. 
 Evans, Alfred R. 
 Everett, George H. 
 p'arrington, James 
 P'aulkner, Francis C. 
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 Ferren, P^benezer 
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 Graves, R. E. 
 
 Greeley, A. P. . 
 
 Greenfield, Charles 
 
 Greenleaf, C. H. 
 
 Griffin, S. G. 
 
 Grogan, Frank W. 
 
 Haines, J. N. 
 
 Hale, Wm. S. 
 
 Hall, Daniel 
 
 Hall, George E. 
 
 Hamblett, C. J. 
 
 Hanson, Dominicus 
 
 Hardy, Silas 
 
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 Haskell, P. T. 
 
 Haslet, G. W., sketch only 
 
 Hastings, T. N. 
 
 Hatch, R. B. 
 
 Hayes, Charles C. 
 
 Hayes, J. A. 
 
 Hazelton, Geo. C. 
 
 Heffenger, A. C. 
 
 Hersey, Fred E. 
 
 Hildreth, David M. 
 
 Hill, A. W. 
 
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 Hills, Andrew J. 
 
 Ilobbs, J. O. 
 
 Hodsdon, A. L. 
 
 Hopkins, C. H. 
 
 Humphrey, John 
 
 Hunt, William P. 
 
 Jackson, George F. 
 
 Jewell, David L. 
 
 Jewett, S. S. 
 
 Jones, Edwin E. 
 
 Jones, Frank 
 
 Jones, John F. 
 
 Kennett, A. Crosby 
 
 Kent, Hervey 
 
 Kimball, E. P. 
 
 King, R. H. 
 
 Knight, W. F. 
 
 Knowlton, E. J., sketch only 
 
 Langdon, Woodbury 
 
 Leach, E. G. 
 
 Leet, G. E. 
 
 Leonard, W. S. 
 
 Lewando, Joseph 
 
 Libbey, Fred S. 
 
 Libbey, H. C. 
 
 Lincoln, N. S. 
 
 Liscom, Lemuel F. 
 
 Little, George P. 
 
 Lockhart, B. W. 
 
 Lord, Edwin H. 
 
 Lougee, Geo. W. 
 
 Mack, A D., portrait only 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 203 
 
 Mack, William B. 
 
 S9 
 
 Mackey, E. D. 
 
 . 204 
 
 Martin, Nathaniel E. 
 
 • 55 
 
 Marvin, W. E. 
 
 226 
 
 McCollester, S. H. 
 
 56 
 
 McQueston, E. F. 
 
 136 
 
 Mead, E. D. 
 
 59 
 
 Melville, Henry 
 
 173 
 
 Miner, Francis H. 
 
 56 
 
 Mitchell, Abram W. 
 
 137 
 
 Moody, W. H. H., sketch only 
 
 217 
 
 Murkland, C. S. 
 
 219 
 
 Nash, John B. 
 
 S7 
 
 Nason, William F. 
 
 60 
 
 Newton, Leroy A. 
 
 176 
 
 Niles, William W. , . 
 
 ■38 
 
 Ninis, Francis O. 
 
 '75 
 
 Norris, True L. 
 
 139 
 
 Ordway, N. G. 
 
 226 
 
 Osgood, A. N. . 
 
 1.39 
 
 Parsons, W. M. 
 
 227 
 
 Page, Samuel B. 
 
 177 
 
 Parker, Henry R. 
 
 17S 
 
 Patterson, S. F. 
 
 90 
 
 Peabody, Charles A , sketch on 
 
 6i 
 
 Pearson, E. N. 
 
 iSo 
 
 Pearson, J. C. 
 
 140 
 
 Pearson, J. H. 
 
 91 
 
 Peaslee, Benjamin D. 
 
 90 
 
 Peirce, G. W. 
 
 ■79 
 
 Pelton, F. B. 
 
 23 
 
 Perkins, A. A. 
 
 24 
 
 Perkins, George H. 
 
 141 
 
 Perkins, H. B. 
 
 62 
 
 Pike, Robert G. 
 
 179 
 
 Pillsbuiy, Albert E. 
 
 -'7 
 
 Pillsbury, Parker 
 
 141 
 
 Piper, Charles F. 
 
 24 
 
 Pitman, Charles F. . 
 
 92 
 
 Plnmmer, Chas. PI. 
 
 I So 
 
 Porter, R. H. ... 
 
 iSi 
 
 Powers, Wilbur H. 
 
 21S 
 
 Pulsifer, C. L. . 
 
 . 62 
 
 Quimby, J. G., sketch only 
 
 64 
 
 Quinby, Henry B. 
 
 63 
 
 Ramsdell, Geo. A. 
 
 1S2 
 
 Ranlet, Joseph 
 
 142 
 
 Reed, Wm. J. 
 
 185 
 
 Reynolds, Thomas O. 
 
 227 
 
 Rich, George F. , 
 
 142 
 
 Richardson, Cyrus 
 
 '83 
 
 Robinson, Plenry 
 
 25 
 
 Robinson, John L. 
 
 . . 184 
 
 Rollins, Frank W. 
 
 66 
 
 Rollins, Montgomery 
 
 26 
 
 Rundlett, L. J. 
 
 26 
 
 Russell, P'rank W. 
 
 143 
 
 Saltmarsh, G. H., sketch only 
 
 27 
 
 Sanborn, Geo. F. 
 
 28 
 
 Sanborn, John W. 
 
 183 
 
 Sanger, T. E. 
 
 65 
 
 Sargent, F. H. 
 
 29 
 
 Sargent, H. G. ... 
 
 229 
 
 Sawyer, Charles H. . 
 
 68 
 i8s 
 
 94 
 186 
 
 31 
 
 144 
 
 187 
 
 66 
 
 92 
 
 69 
 
 228 
 
 188 
 
 188 
 
 94, 
 
 30 
 
 67 
 
 ■69 
 
 93 
 189 
 144 
 219 
 
 94 
 
 97 
 
 32 
 228 
 146 
 147 
 147 
 
 71 
 
 206 
 70 
 
 '45 
 
 220 
 
 35 
 207 
 
 9S 
 
 148 
 98 
 
 99 
 227 
 100 
 208 
 
 lOI 
 
 225 
 71 
 36 
 
 lOI 
 
 32 
 149 
 
 73 
 191 
 
 150 
 
 33 
 229 
 
 ^9i 
 34 
 35 
 
 •93 
 72 
 
 103 
 
INDEX. 
 
 ^2>2i 
 
 Shannon, E. H. 
 Shapley, J. Hamilton 
 Shute, Henry A. 
 Sides, W. O. 
 Smith, Charles S. 
 Smith, Isaac W. 
 Smith, Robert 1!. 
 Smith, W. B. T. 
 Spalding, John A. 
 Spanlding, O. L. 
 Sprague, Obadiah 
 Stahl, A. M. 
 Stanton, Lucius M. 
 Stark, Gillis 
 Stearns, Ezra S. 
 Stearns, Onslow 
 Stone, C. F. 
 Stone, Melvin T. 
 Streeter, Frank S. 
 Sturtevant, E. H. 
 Sulloway, C. A. 
 Swart, W. D. 
 Sweet, Robert V. 
 Tenney, Chas. H. 
 Tetley, Edmund 
 Thayer, W. F. 
 Thompson, Arthur 
 Thompson, James 
 Tovvle, E. I. 
 
 1 06 
 150 
 104 
 211 
 
 73 
 104 
 
 151 
 194 
 
 37 
 15- 
 1 06 
 107 
 153 
 
 74 
 '55 
 153 
 223 
 
 37 
 192 
 loS 
 192 
 
 155 
 .56 
 107 
 109 
 196 
 no 
 75 
 
 Towne, George D. 
 Truesdell, Edmund E. 
 Tucker, W. J. 
 Tuttle, James P. 
 Twitchell, Albert S. 
 Upton, J. K. . 
 Upton, Peter 
 Varney, D. B. 
 Vainey, F. M. . 
 Walker, Reuben E. 
 Wallace, Albert 
 Wallace, A. S. 
 Wallace, R. M. 
 Wallace, Sumner 
 Wason, E. H. 
 Webster, Claudius B. 
 Weeks, Frank 
 Weeks, John W. 
 Wentvvorth, Geo. A. 
 Westgate, Tyler 
 Whittemore, Arthur G. 
 Wilder, Christopher W. 
 Wilkinson, S. S. 
 Williamson, W. D. 
 Winslow, S. J. 
 Woodbury, Levi. 
 Woodworth, Albert B. 
 Worcester, J. H., sketch only 
 
 74 
 112 
 
 195 
 77 
 79 
 
 III 
 
 77 
 i'3 
 213 
 
 38 
 117 
 .56 
 197 
 
 79 
 197 
 
 "3 
 
 38 
 
 198 
 
 "5 
 157 
 116 
 
 78 
 118 
 118 
 
 39 
 158 
 117 
 229